Rex Kerr
Oct 15, 2022

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Okay, so you do know. But then why here don't you distinguish between a more-or-less constant fixed increase in warming by having a large population of cows on the Earth (compared to what there was historically, for instance)--fixed because the residence time for methane is short compared to how quickly we're likely to make big changes in things like cow populations--and the continual accumulation of CO2 (which won't return to baseline for a long time compared to how rapidly we can change our technology to dramatically reduce net carbon export).

If we could have fewer cows, it wouldn't solve the long-term problem, but it might buy us a few more years to get our CO2 addiction under control.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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