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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

>It seems obviously false to me when we factor in the land used for their food production

it **seems** obvious, but we feed them cottonseed, which is a byproduct of the textile industry. why should the land and water and emissions spent to make tee-shirts and jeans also be attributed to cattle? we feed them silage that is byproduct from other sectors of the ag industry. we feed them soy cake, a byproduct of soybean oil pressing.

these are conservations of resources. why should we say it costs those values rather than saves them?