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even AOC can’t blame this one on the cow farts

WHAT DOES ALEXAN­DRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ have to do with cow farts or methane? Well, I wanted a hu­morous title to catch the read­er’s attention—especially given the se­ri­ous­ness of the issue—and the word “fart” catches a lot of folk’s at­ten­tion. As for AOC, you will have to wait until the post­script below to find out how she is as­so­ci­ated with bovine flatulence. [Read more] “even AOC can’t blame this one on the cow farts”

PatrickChappatte CaliforniaDrought 04 28 2015 1500 crop

2018 another year of record temperatures around the world

THE GREEN­HOUSE GAS BUL­LETIN from the World Me­te­o­ro­log­ical Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WMO) pro­vided fig­ures for glob­ally av­er­aged con­cen­tra­tions of three key climate-heating gases in 2018: ni­trous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4). The pres­ence of these three gases in our at­mos­phere have in­creased by 123%, 147%, and 259% of pre-industrial levels (levels prior to 1750). [Read more] “2018 another year of record temperatures around the world”