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Letter: Don't forget the global warming burp effect

Published 2 February 2022

From Bruce Denness, Niton, Isle of Wight, UK

Colin Heath’s belief that replacing livestock with trees wouldn’t deliver a sufficiently fast reduction of greenhouse gases because trees take 25 years to grow overlooks the immediate elimination of the animals’ flatulence (Letters, 15 January).

Issue no. 3372 published 5 February 2022

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