Cattle have numerous impacts on Earth’s climate and natural environments, despite misconceptions
Summary Studies have shown that cattle farming operations – even ones that are perceived to be ‘better’ like pastured operations…
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Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist
Even if solar capacity continues to grow at unprecedented rates in the next several years, data suggests that the land used for solar panels will account for a small portion of the land used for agriculture.
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InaccurateContrary to viral misinformation, cow feed additive Bovaer shows no safety concerns for consumers
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Cow feed additive Bovaer is unsafe, makes milk unfit for human consumption
Source: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
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Health risks associated with pesticide chlormequat on oat- and wheat-based food products require further investigation
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Chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats may cause infertility and delayed puberty
Source: Facebook, New York Post, Twitter, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Social media user, Shannon Thaler, 2024-02-15 -
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Study calls for people to grow their own food for many years to come, despite finding higher carbon footprint compared to conventional agriculture
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Study and headline saying homegrown food is more carbon intensive than conventional agriculture is meant to discourage and stop people from growing their own food
Source: Facebook, The Atlas Society, Social media users, 2024-01-26 -
Misleading
Viral claim that cow burps are not an important contributor to climate change ignores full range of greenhouse gas emissions of beef production
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Methane from cows is only a small percentage of total greenhouse gas emissions, it would be produced anyways without cattle, it is not an important contributor to climate change
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-12-19 -
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CLINTEL group inaccurately represents climate science in its declaration of “no climate emergency” once again
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Global warming is just the end of the Little Ice Age; Warming is slower than climate models forecasted; Carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth; Global warming is not intensifying or increasing the frequency of natural disasters
Source: The Epoch Times, Clintel, Benoit Rittaud, Christopher Monckton, Guus Berkhout, Ian Plimer, Patrick Moore, Richard Lindzen, Viv Forbes, Naveen Athrappully, 2023-08-19 -
Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
“The benefit[s] of increasing CO2 concentrations for plant growth are increasingly being outweighed by the negative impacts, especially of global warming. This is true for natural as well as agricultural ecosystems.”
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Inaccurate
A 2014 study showed that the US Corn Belt is one of the biggest primary producers on Earth in July, but didn’t show that it produces more oxygen than the Amazon
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"the US corn crop, at its peak, produces 40% more oxygen than the Amazon rainforest."
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-09-05 -
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CO2 coalition sponsored article in The Washington Times presents list of false and misleading statements about the impacts of CO2 and climate change
“This article recycles old tropes such as “it’s been warm before”, “CO2 levels have been higher in the past” (millions of years ago!), “CO2 is plant food”, “warming is good for ecosystems/humans”, “so far impacts are small, so they will remain small”, etc. All these pseudo-arguments have been addressed many times before (see examples here, here, and here). This article is clearly motivated, misleading and biased.”
