Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

Re:Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Enti... by sdenton4 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:52AM (#17037080)

Random Gaurdian story puts methane : "Methane accounted for about 16% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, according to the IPCC." (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/29/methane-...)

Wikipedia puts (with some question about the citation) methan at 4-9% of total greenhouse effect contribution, and CO2 at 9-26%. (And then water vapor way above that, at 36-72%.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Greenhouse_gase...

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Re:Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Enti... by samstave on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:06PM (#17040145)

How are we producing water vapor more than say clouds?

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Re:Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Enti... by sdenton4 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:23PM (#17040310)

I think the table is attributing greenhouse to gases generally, not to man-made gases; as a result, water vapor wins. (OTOH, turning clouds into drinking water at scale would be a cool way to fight global warming and deal with drought at the same time. My understanding is that storm seeding has a pretty seedy history, though.)

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