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Keeping Score On Climate: How We Measure Greenhouse Gases

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The Math Saves the World Again

The land can be a big source of greenhouse gas amissions, especially if humans are disrupting it. Cow berps are a huge source of methane in particular. If you turn over the soil to farm it, or you cut down trees, you're releasing carbon that's stored in the ground. So i talk to ben holton about this. He works at cornell university. We know that to day agriculture contribute about a quarter, that's 25 %, of global greenhouse gas emissions. The math saves the world again.

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