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Greenhouse Gases: Are Dairy Cows to Blame?

Published: May 2, 2013
Summary
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the main greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide started to increase around the early nineteenth century (IPCC, 2006). From then on, and particularly during the twentieth century, their increase was exponential. Methane concentrations have more than doubled since preindustrial times whereas carbon dioxide and nitrous o...
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Alvaro Garcia
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University
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Andrew Simmons
30 de abril de 2014
with the loss of 99.8% of the Bison in the years between 1850 and 1880 would not the IPCC graph on methane not have shown this reduction?
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