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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] JohnDClay 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The majority of corn beans and a lot of grain all go to feeding livestock. You could be a lot more efficient growing the food directly.

Corn

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Corn isn't very sweet (read energy rich). It's ridiculous to farm it for fuel. There are crops that are good, but they don't grow well in the continental US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Feed/residual doesn't that include running sheep on harvested fields to eat the stubble and turn it into fertiliser?

[–] JohnDClay 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think so, since that wouldn't be counted in the bushel yield.