Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

• BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you look at the two charts you listed they correlate very heavily with eachother

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    check 1995-1996

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes a single blip where there was a 1% decrease in beef without a corresponding drop in GhG that in that same year they had a bunch of cows that were grown to maturity and then slaughtered.

      I went a step further though I downloaded the CSV files and ran a correlation on them using excels CORREL function and they had a 0.98911 correlation

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it’s a 1% drop in total meat production. beef is just a portion of that. The whole reason for the blip though, was beef production.

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