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Just wait till Google gets the methane satellites and show that big oil is the one doing 99% of the pollution

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The balance of the evidence to date is that raising ruminants responsible for something like 35-40% of anthropogenic methane emissions. That’s big enough to be worth addressing.

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Big oil has neglected to include well burnoffs in their calculations making those studies garbage.

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A lot of the satellite data for methane is already available. Researchers aren’t finding what you’re describing.

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What makes you so sure there can only be one singular big culprit, rather than multiple culprits of different sizes?

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And if you force me to eat more fiber, I’ll be the one making more methane emissions. I do love me some beans, but I can only take so much!

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