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Australian scientists found that adding a certain seaweed to cattle feed could cut global methane emissions by 70 percent.
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Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.
At least two studies have been published since 2010 that suggest reducing soot and methane would cut human - caused global temperature increases by half of a degree Celsius, or about 1 degree Fahrenheit, by 2050.
The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.
Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.
Raymond Pierrehumbert, an Oxford University atmospheric physics professor who believes cutting carbon dioxide emissions is more urgent than cutting methane emissions, said Howarth's research offers little new information about the role of natural gas production in global warming.
From providing cleaner cookstoves to rural families and improving rice cultivation to reduce methane emissions to reducing emissions from deforestation and cutting deepening dependence on carbon - emitting coal, the solutions to global warming pursued by countries across Asia are specific to their unique needs and opportunities.
Agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes combined - largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields and carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock.
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Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
Given methane's potency and the urgency of cutting heat - trapping emissions to avoid the worst damage from global warming, the administration's strategy was less a bold step forward and more of «a toe in the water,» said David Doniger, director for the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program.