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Regardless of whether you think that we should respond to the impacts of greenhouse gas warming the climate by adaptation rather than mitigation, conducting studies of the impacts and potential modification of GHG sources (like livestock) is a serious part of any effort to engage in mitigation.Sure. Serious to the people who stand to make billions off of their synthetic or plant-based protein or the Davos idiots who want everyone to just Eat Teh Bugs. No thank you.
A serious discussion about ecological damage caused by farming would be the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. Proper rotational farming solves a lot of that.
You might think it's dumb to try to stop rising climate change rather than adapt to it, but if the folks who want to stop (or at least arrest) rising climate change win elections and get into power, then doing things like studying livestock isn't a foolhardy step towards pursuing those goals. Yes, it's dumb. The planet is going to do what the planet is going to do, and so will the sun. To wit:
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/atmospheric-ef...The researchers used satellite data to examine how stratospheric aerosols, gases, and temperatures changed after the eruption. The Hunga eruption contributed about 150 metric megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere—an amount so high that it raised global levels of stratospheric water vapor by about 10%. This massive water injection cooled temperatures in the tropical stratosphere by 4°C in March and April of 2022. In turn, this temporary cooling created a secondary circulation pattern that led to reduced ozone levels throughout 2022.Then there's the Antarctic ice sheet, doomed because of global warming.
https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-a...The edge of the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica
The edge of the Thwaites glacier, shown here in an image taken during Operation Icebridge, a NASA-led study of Antarctic and Greenland glaciers. The blue along the glacier front is dense, compressed ice. (Image credit: NASA photograph by Jim Yungel)
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Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you'll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes.
Now, a new study finds that these subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal "hotspots" are contributing to the melting of Thwaites Glacier, a major river of ice that flows into Antarctica's Pine Island Bay. Areas of the glacier that sit near geologic features thought to be volcanic are melting faster than regions farther away from hotspots, said Dustin Schroeder, the study's lead author and a geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin.So no, Antarctic melting wasn't from a hot plume of water that started way north and somehow retained its energy for thousands of miles.
As for the above, any serious discussion means talking about both adapting and mitigating.This is my point. The discussion around mitigating aren't serious and never have been.
What happens to the world's solar array if Yellowstone suddenly goes up? Gonna wish we had way more nuclear power plants then.
