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Global temperatures briefly spike above key climate threshold, scientists warn of more extremes (www.pbs.org)

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European researchers said Thursday that the the start of June saw global surface air temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time. That is the limit governments said they would try to limit global warming to at a 2015 summit in Paris.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where I live and how I grew up, farming is a way of life. I’m not sure what the numbers are but it seems to me pork is a very hot meat, from beginning to end. I probably should research that, and the only corporate farms near are fruit and vegetable. Corn is also very hot, and the industries and family farms rely on it. Economically, the most eaten meat in my area (very underserved) is chicken and fish, whether bought or raised/caught. And wild game, I guess.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way I understood it last I saw it broken down was that fish and poultry are better than pork, and pork is way better than beef. Corn is corn because the government subsidizes it due to some very old economic conditions and no one ever got it off the books, and I understood that to have far more negative effects on our diets (high-fructose corn syrup) than on the climate.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I’ll definitely look into it after chores and errands. I’m wondering if corn-sweat is considered…