{"id":1517,"date":"2014-12-09T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:38:51","slug":"yak-dung-is-making-climate-change-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/yak-dung-is-making-climate-change-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yak dung is making climate change worse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mother Jones<\/em> reprinted a story from <em>Slate<\/em> this week on the contribution of burning yak dung to climate change in the Himalayas.\u00a0 Traditionally, Tibetans have burned dried yak dung to keep their houses warm during the long harsh winter.\u00a0 However, the burning fuel creates a lot of indoor air pollution as well emits a lot of carbon dioxide.\u00a0 In fact, the amount that is being put out is a significant fraction of the overall global emissions, considering how small the population there is.\u00a0 One obvious solution might be to get the Tibetans to get their heat from somewhere else.\u00a0 However, other options are much more costly and are not traditional, which means there is a lot of opposition to using them.\u00a0 Besides, as one person quoted in the article said, &#8220;what are they going to do with all the dung?&#8221;\u00a0 The article points out the problems with making changes in agricultural practices to reduce carbon emissions and that any changes that are made need to consider not just carbon but economics and other factors.\u00a0 You can read the article <a title=\"Yak dung\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2014\/12\/yak-dung-making-climate-change-worse\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/yak-commons-wikimedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/yak-commons-wikimedia-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"yak commons wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/yak-commons-wikimedia-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/yak-commons-wikimedia-144x138.jpg 144w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/yak-commons-wikimedia.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones reprinted a story from Slate this week on the contribution of burning yak dung to climate change in the Himalayas.\u00a0 Traditionally, Tibetans have burned dried yak dung to keep their houses warm during the long harsh winter.\u00a0 However, the burning fuel creates a lot of indoor air pollution as well emits a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}