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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to a 2010 study on managing soils to mitigate climate change, soils used for agriculture contain 25 to 75 percent less soil organic carbon “than their counterparts in undisturbed or natural ecosystems.” . For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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90% Of Earth’s Warming In 1971–2010 Happened In The Ocean

CleanTechnica

For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a result, more than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971 and 2010 occurred in the ocean.