{"id":360702,"date":"2010-02-24T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-your-car-your-meat-eating-the-biggest-causes-of-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:40:19","slug":"your-car-and-your-meat-eating-the-biggest-causes-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360702","title":{"rendered":"Your car and your meat-eating: the biggest causes of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby treehugger.com <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/undefined\"><\/a>A new study coming out of NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/\">Goddard<br \/> Institute for Space Studies<\/a>, and published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/107\/8\/3382\">Proceedings of the <br \/>National Academy of Sciences<\/a>, shows that when it comes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/12\/97-climate-scientists-humans-causing-global-warming.php\">net<br \/> contribution to climate change<\/a> on-road transportation, burning <br \/>biomass for cooking, and raising animals for food are the biggest <br \/>culprits. Since most of us don&#8217;t regularly use <br \/>biomass stoves to cook, as do millions of people in developing nations, <br \/>that leaves us with your car and your diet to tackle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Rather than looking at the sources of different chemicals linked with <br \/>global warming, the GISS study looked at net climate impact from <br \/>different economic sectors. By net impact, we&#8217;re talking about emissions<br \/> than contribute to warming (the usual suspects CO2, methane, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/90-percent-himalayan-glacier-melting-caused-by-aerosols-black-carbon.php\">black<br \/> carbon<\/a>, etc) minus those emissions that actually slow warming (some<br \/> aerosols, sulfates, etc) by reflecting light and altering clouds.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/your-car-your-meat-eating-biggest-causes-climate-change.php\">rest of the story<\/a> from our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\">TreeHugger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-hop-on-the-bus-texters\/\">Hop on the bus, texters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-hummer-to-hum-along-no-more\/\">Hummer to hum along no more?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-smithfield-sustainablity-officer\/\">Smithfield tries to weave a silk purse from a sow&#8217;s ear<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=449c945521987e666d36454b8c3fc909&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=449c945521987e666d36454b8c3fc909&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by treehugger.com A new study coming out of NASA&#8217;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. 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