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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

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A top-down approach begins with atmospheric emissions as recorded by sensors or satellites which can then, by a variety of methods, be attributed to geographic regions or particular categories of emitters. A rice emissions estimate could consider factors like the area used for rice production and water management method, among many others.

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Arguments over Solar Geoengineering Research

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The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. These warnings don’t disparage the need for extreme efforts on emissions cuts, atmospheric removals, and adaptation. to 1%) of incoming sunlight. I won’t repeat those here.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] In 2014, areas where there had been selective logging and prescribed burning survived the high-intensity King megafire Eldorado National Forest. Villers Ruiz, 2014: North America. December 2016.