Friday, February 19, 2010

Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change

University of California, Davis
January 2010
(Paritally reprinted from CA&ES E-news)

Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change, says a University of California authority on farming and greenhouse gases.

UC Davis air quality specialist Frank Mitloehner says that McCartney and the chair of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ignored science when they launched a European campaign called "Less Meat = Less Heat." The launch came on the eve of the major international climate summit in Copenhagen in December.

For the full text of the article:  http://caes.ucdavis.edu/NewsEvents/e-news/2010/don2019t-blame-cows-for-climate-change?utm_source=UC+Davis+CA%26ES+E-News&utm_campaign=c782c44e87-CAES_E-News_JanFeb_2010&utm_medium=email

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