Posted on 01/07/2024 6:35:43 AM PST by Eleutheria5
A team of engineers and atmospheric scientists at Harvard University, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has calculated the increased amount of methane being expelled into the atmosphere due to increases in rice farming in parts of Africa.
In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group describes how they recalculated methane emissions due to recent increases in rice production in sub-Saharan Africa, and what they found by doing so.
Prior research has shown that methane is the second most important greenhouse gas (behind carbon dioxide)—it has been found to have more radiative properties (it holds in heat better) than CO2, which means that even though far less of it is emitted into the atmosphere, it still plays a major role in global warming.
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If I were the africans I would feed these Harvard bastards to the lions.
Everytime I have had a logical argument about the environment with a liberal, it ALWAYS ends with the liberal saying “well, there’s just too many people.”
Grain and legumes is perfect protein, and quite musical.
In Africa they call it a tire necklace.
In Haiti, Per Lebrune
Doesn’t China grow rice? What about studying them?
Methane is lighter than most atmospheric gases. It rises up in the atmosphere and gets blown away by the solar wind never to be seen again. It is only a greenhouse gas for a short time. There is probably some math by which you can calculate how long it takes for a molecule of methane to rise up into the sky. At any rate, carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe but only the 14th most abundant element in the earth’s crust. This is because carbon forms methane quite readily and the methane volatilizes and floats away. If anything we should be alarmed that all the useful carbon is getting blown away into space.
Interestingly, something like 12 % of carbon in the air is carbon 14, which is produced by interactions between nitrogen and cosmic rays in the upper layers of the atmosphere.
Are “no smoking” signs placarded around those rice fields in Africa??????
If co2 gets low enough (around 140 ppm) plants start to die.
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Would these scientists prefer they raise cattle?
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Ow you’re catching on!
And in space it’ll cause vacuum-al warming. It might even get sucked into the sun! Run! The sky is falling! The sun is warming! Icebergs are floating around the South Pole! Heeeelp!
It means that African governments have to be coerced into ending rice farming just as European governments are phasing out agriculture to mitigate Global Warming or to, perhaps, promote depopulation through famine just in case the COVID death shots have not been enough to do the job to the desired degree..
vegetarians are beating out farting cows, ban vegetarians
Force feed them hamburger. Try persuading them, saying “that’s one cow that won’t ever fart again.” But if that doesn’t work, get the gastro feeding tube.
Do you remember when all these geniuses came up with the idea of spraying soot (black carbon) on the poles to defeat “GLOBAL COOLING”?
Back about 73 or 74 I think.
My reply to that has always been and always will be
“YOUR RIGHT, NOW GO KILL YOURSELF”, and save the ERF!
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