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Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by gerdesj on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:50AM (#24576647)
"this has the potential to be just about the biggest bang-for-buck weapon we have against climate change in the next decade."

Now we only need to get cars 'n' lorries etc, ships and aeroplanes to eat the stuff and it's job done. Obviously, coal and gas fired power stations are already changing their diet and farting and belching less methane already.

The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching and the Greenland icesheet has stopped melting.

Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by jussij on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:37AM (#24577569)
> The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching

How I wish this was the true picture, but unfortunately science paints a picture that is much worse:

Apr 7, 2020

'The scale of bleaching is enormous during global bleaching events,' according to Professor Hughes, 'the situation brings me to despair.'

The first recorded mass bleaching along the Reef struck in 1998, at the time the hottest year on record. Then again in 2002, 2016 and 2017, as more temperature records were broken.

The latest follows February’s unusually hot summer–resulting in the highest ever sea surface temperatures recorded on the Reef since controls began in 1900.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great...

Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by phaemon on Thursday September 24, 2020 @10:27AM (#24578893)
The Greenland icesheet has not stopped melting. It's currently losing around 200 billion tons a year:

https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%204158...

Re:Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces met... by headmelted on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:18AM (#24578326)
So your problem with what I said is that there’s clearly far more to it than cow farts so you feel like we therefore shouldn’t do anything at all.

Or maybe I said “best bang-for-buck” and you heard “planes eat seaweed”.