Climate Change | CLEAR Center

No, Four Pounds of Beef Doesn’t Equal the Emissions of a Transatlantic Flight

September 26, 2019

This is yet another example of misleading data that is misinforming the public and even worse, perhaps affecting public policy in a way that is detrimental to achieving climate change solutions. Eliminating meat from our diet is not the answer to slowing the planet's warming.

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What is Carbon Sequestration and How Does it Work?

September 20, 2019

Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing, securing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The idea is to stabilize carbon in solid and dissolved forms so that it doesn’t cause the atmosphere to warm. The process shows tremendous promise for reducing the human “carbon footprint.” There are two main types of carbon sequestration: biological and geological.

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Carbon Emissions from Amazon Fires Pale in Comparison to Burning of our Fossil Forests

September 11, 2019

While the world is rightfully focused on the demise of the Amazon, no one is mourning the loss of the ancient forests that live below the surface of the earth. The ones we call fossil fuels and which we are burning at the expense of a warming earth. This is the real climate change emergency.

Use Your Head – the Amazon isn’t Our Lungs

September 02, 2019

While the world should be concerned with the tens of thousands of wildfires that have hit the Amazon wonder, the amount of misguided rhetoric that has sprung forth is disappointing. Of the most confounding beliefs is that U.S. beef consumption is to blame for the blazes.

The Role Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Cows Play in Climate Change

June 28, 2019

By Amy Quinton

Inside the University of California, Davis, dairy barn, a Holstein cow has its head and neck sealed airtight inside a large, clear-plastic chamber that resembles an incubator for newborns. While giant tubes above the chamber pump air in and push air out, the cow calmly stands and eats her feed. Equipment inside a nearby trailer spits out data.

EAT-Lancet’s Environmental Claims are an Epic Fail – and the Commission Knows It

February 19, 2019

The “universal healthy reference diet” proposed by the EAT commission drastically reduces the amount of meat – especially red meat – and animal products, giving us something that is about as close as one can get to veganism without being all-out vegan. Exaggerating cattle's impact on the environment is only leading us further from climate change solutions.