To reduce global warming, address meat consumption

Climate Central: Dramatically reducing emissions of one of the key contributors to global warming -- nitrous oxide -- will require farmers to change their ways of growing food, and citizens in the developed world to slash their yearly meat consumption, according to a new study published Friday. The study by Eric Davidson, the director of the Woods Hole Research Center on Cape Cod, Mass., lays out actions that would be required in order to adhere to emissions scenarios developed by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel...

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