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The Global Warming Potential of Methan
Each gas has what's called a global warming potential, and that's basically a scaling factor. Methane is a flow gas, and carbon dioxide is a stock gas. So every kilogram of methine emitted by cattle through interic a fermentation,. is getting multipliedb up to 36 times when it is converted to carbon dioxide. But if you actually reduce the amount of cattle per se, like has been happening in the us, we're down 20 to 30 % for our national cattle herd since the seventies then the methane in the atmosphere due to cattle will actually be lower.