Climate change describes changes in the state of the atmosphere
over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years.
These changes can be caused by processes inside the Earth. e.g.
volcanoes and forces from outside, e.g. variations in sunlight
intensity. Other significant factors include: temperature,
atmospheric pressure, wind, solar irradiance, humidity,
precipitation, and topography.
The major greenhouse
gases are water vapor, which causes about 36–70% of the
greenhouse effect; carbon dioxide (CO2), which causes 9–26%;
methane (CH4), which causes 4–9%; and ozone (O3), which causes
3–7%.
A 2012 United Nations
report revealed that the earth’s cattle population produces more
carbon dioxide than automobiles, planes, and all other forms of
transport combined. Also, the cow pies they drop and the gas
they produce equals a third of the world’s methane emissions,
which traps 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide.
In the summer of 2016, EcoWatch published an article confirming
that greenhouse gas emissions from livestock actually account
for a higher percentage of total global emissions than the
world’s 1.2 billion automobiles.
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