by treehugger.com
A new study coming out of NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, and published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, shows that when it comes to the net
contribution to climate change on-road transportation, burning
biomass for cooking, and raising animals for food are the biggest
culprits. Since most of us don’t regularly use
biomass stoves to cook, as do millions of people in developing nations,
that leaves us with your car and your diet to tackle.
Rather than looking at the sources of different chemicals linked with
global warming, the GISS study looked at net climate impact from
different economic sectors. By net impact, we’re talking about emissions
than contribute to warming (the usual suspects CO2, methane, black
carbon, etc) minus those emissions that actually slow warming (some
aerosols, sulfates, etc) by reflecting light and altering clouds.
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