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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

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. Concerns of this type have arisen in many areas of research and technology, notably going back to the first Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA experiments in 1973. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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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

Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. and around the world. and around the world.