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by tuatoru 1723 days ago
When measured over 100 years, methane has about 21 times the global warming potential of CO2.

When measured over 10 years, it's more like 81 times.

So the "28 times" already allows for the fact that it's mostly only there for 10 years.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/methane-vs-c...

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But it means that the meat we eat today just warms the earth for 10 years in the future. Global warming isn't a catastrophe in 10 years, so eating meat today is a non issue. When global warming becomes an issue we can kill all the cows and stop eating meat and that way quickly cool the earth.
Why was this downvoted? The 28 times figure only applies if you average for when the activity continues for 100 years. Meaning if we stop and most of the warming is in the first 10 years, we'd see a huge global cooling from stopping such a massive effect. This would serve as a great way to quickly reverse global climate change once it gets critical, and once it get critical people can no longer say that it isn't a problem so you'd have the whole world on your side, so not sure why we would waste that opportunity by using it now rather than when the whole world understands the problem?