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One-Fifth of Americans are Responsible for Half the Country’s Food-Based Emissions
getpocket.com ^ | 3/21/2018 | Sara Chodosh

Posted on 02/22/2020 6:06:14 AM PST by rktman

Martin Heller is one of those people. He’s an engineer at the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems and one of several researchers who published a paper in Environmental Research Letters assessing how much variability there is in the greenhouse gas emissions of American diets. And it turns out the answer is: a lot. Forty six percent of the total emissions from food came from the diets of just one-fifth of the population.

Mostly that’s because those people eat a lot more meat than the others, especially methane-spewing beef. Animal protein jacks up the emissions for the top consumers, while the ecologically-minded folks at the bottom consume more plant proteins.

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OFFS! Older piece but it still indicates just how friggin crazy the 'warmunists' are. With charts and stuff too. Just call me a 'fifther' then. Time for some bacon.
1 posted on 02/22/2020 6:06:14 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Is this saying that 20% of people are responsible for 50% of farts?


2 posted on 02/22/2020 6:08:43 AM PST by MNDude
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To: rktman

I fart in her general direction!


3 posted on 02/22/2020 6:09:11 AM PST by W. (Hey, beer!)
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To: rktman

“BLAAAAT!!”


4 posted on 02/22/2020 6:09:50 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: rktman

Bull. They’re trying to obscure vegan farts with cow farts.


5 posted on 02/22/2020 6:09:51 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rktman

I like cheeseburgers and bacon, not sorry.


6 posted on 02/22/2020 6:10:13 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: MNDude

GMTA.

I fart... and I have a compost pile, too.


7 posted on 02/22/2020 6:10:15 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rktman

8 posted on 02/22/2020 6:10:24 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ~ Psalm 32:12.)
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To: MNDude

“Is this saying that 20% of people are responsible for 50% of farts?”

i think so ... after all, they ARE talking about “food-based emissions” (though i suppose that could include burping as well)


9 posted on 02/22/2020 6:11:01 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rktman

She is a fool

She piles lies on top of lies to reach a conclusion that is a lie

She is an American enemy.


10 posted on 02/22/2020 6:11:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: rktman
I apologize.

Now pull my finger.

11 posted on 02/22/2020 6:11:38 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: rktman

I fart, therefore I am.


12 posted on 02/22/2020 6:11:48 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bert

I feel a food based emission coming on right now....


13 posted on 02/22/2020 6:13:06 AM PST by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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To: rktman
"methane-spewing beef"

No obvious bias there.

14 posted on 02/22/2020 6:13:07 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: rktman

Using virtue signalling surveys to try to extrapolate actual data... Right, into the round filing basket you go.


15 posted on 02/22/2020 6:13:41 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: bk1000

Oh what a sleekit horrible beastie
Lurks in your belly efter the feastie
Just as ye sit doon among yer kin
There sterts to stir an enormous wind
The neeps and tatties and mushy peas
Stert workin like a gentle breeze
But soon the puddin wi the sauncie face
Will have ye blawin all ower the place

Nae matter whit the hell ye dae
A’body’s gonnae hiv tae pay
Even if ye try tae stifle
It’s like a bullet oot a rifle
Hawd yer bum tight tae the chair
Tae try and stop the leakin air
Shifty yersel fae cheek tae cheek
Prae tae God it doesnae reek

But aw yer efforts go assunder
Oot it comes like a clap o thunder
Ricochets aroon the room
Michty me a sonic boom
God almighty it fairly reeks
Hope I huvnae shit my breeks
Tae the bog I better scurry
Aw whit the hell it’s no ma worry

A’body roon aboot me chokin
Wan or two are nearly bokin
I’ll feel better for a while
Cannae help but raise a smile
Wiz him! I shout with accusin glower
Alas too late, he’s just keeled ower
Ye dirty bugger they shout and stare
A dinnae feel welcome any mair

Where e’ere ye go let yer wind gan’ free
Sounds like just the job fur me
Whit a fuss at rabbie’s party
Ower the sake o one wee farty


16 posted on 02/22/2020 6:14:42 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Broccolli farts.


17 posted on 02/22/2020 6:15:17 AM PST by D Rider
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To: rktman

Beans, beans, good for your heart! The more you eat, the more you fart! The more you fart, the better you feel, so eat some beans at every meal!


18 posted on 02/22/2020 6:16:15 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: rktman

Oh, my god will they get over it. I eat meat. Not only meat. I eat fish and dairy as well. Some green veggies and nuts too. But meat is what Irish German people have eaten for 60,000 years. And thats just the part we know about. And buy the way. The world has had more CO2 than now for almost all of its existence. And its been warmer for most of the earths existence as well.


19 posted on 02/22/2020 6:17:29 AM PST by poinq
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To: rktman

When it comes to air quality, I think they are wasting our time chewing out the US. Take a look at this map:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-269.07,17.53,422

You can click-and-drag on the map to rotate the earth. This view shows why China tells Greta to screw off. If you click on the “Earth” icon in the lower left, you are given other options to watch, so in real time.


20 posted on 02/22/2020 6:19:18 AM PST by econjack
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