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- Climate
Posted on: 2024-01-09
Viral claim that cow burps are not an important contributor to climate change ignores full range of greenhouse gas emissions of beef production

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Methane from cows is only a small percentage of total greenhouse gas emissions, it would be produced anyways without cattle, it is not an important contributor to climate change

Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-12-19
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- Climate
Posted on: 2019-02-21
Claim that cows have more impact on climate than cars depends on the timescale

Claim:

Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.

Source: Financial Times, Barclay's, 2019-02-19
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- Climate
Posted on: 2018-01-17
Atlantic story on the climate implications of reduced beef consumption could provide clearer context

“The article explains the issue (meat production diverts crops from humans to cattle) on a simple level. More explanation and more context could have been provided, I think, regarding individual-level and sectoral sources of greenhouse emissions.”

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Atlantic story on the climate implications of reduced beef consumption could provide clearer context

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Viral claim that cow burps are not an important contributor to climate change ignores full range of greenhouse gas emissions of beef production

Claim that cows have more impact on climate than cars depends on the timescale

Atlantic story on the climate implications of reduced beef consumption could provide clearer context