Select cuts: Inside Big Meat’s fight to measure greenhouse gases with alternative math
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In the midst of a scientific debate over how to measure climate change, massive agricultural corporations have latched onto a metric that could make them carbon-neutral almost overnight.
A cohort of scientists, who’ve won the support of Big Meat, are inching their way towards convincing governments and international climate organizations to adopt a new scientific metric known as GWP* (pronounced “G-W-P star”), which they contend is a more accurate way to calculate methane emissions. However, that movement is alarming activists, who argue it will hand some of Earth’s top polluters a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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