Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
by chrisco255 on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:46AM
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Surely you're not arguing that the amount of water on the planet has decreased? Or that global annual rainfall has reduced?
EPA shows that annual precipitation has consistently increased over the past century, so the water scare is a bad play:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
by petersellers on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:43AM
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> Surely you're not arguing that the amount of water on the planet has decreased? Or that global annual rainfall has reduced?
No, I'm arguing that you are conflating precipitation with water accessibility.
Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
by vinceguidry on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:54AM
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Are you saying there's a different baseline metric we could be using? If we're going to be making climate-change related arguments about water, we need a climate-based metric to show that it's climate change causing water accessibility issues.
Without such a metric, then it's easier to show that local political issues are what's causing these issues.
The UN disagrees. [1]
> We had the wettest year in 125 years in the U.S. this year.
Surely you're not using a one time event to argue against the scientific consensus of climate change?
> Beef is one of the healthiest foods on the planet, and we evolved to eat meat, and have been eating it for 2.5 million years.
What does this have to do with the water consumption used in raising cows?
[1] - https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/climate-change/