Sentences with phrase «contributing less methane»

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

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As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

Volcanoes contribute less than 0.2 percent of the total methane budget on Earth, and even they may simply be venting methane produced by organisms in the past.

Because the radius of an individual circuit was small (less than 1 kilometer), they can better identify the location of methane sources that contribute to atmospheric anomalies.

There is far less methane in the atmosphere than C02, but that effect may well have contributed a couple percent to the observed rise in C02 levels.

Not to mention that CO2 and N2O also covary with methane, so even if the entire temperature change was based on GHG changes and not orbital changes, CH4 would contribute less than half... My back of the envelope calculations suggests a forcing change of less than 0.2 W / m2 from a drop of 245 ppb — even at the upper end of the CS range this would contribute only about half a degree C to cooling...