{"id":9507,"date":"2016-12-18T22:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2016-12-18T22:46:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:46:33","slug":"methane-production-surges-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/methane-production-surges-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane production surges since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Drovers<\/em>\u00a0newsletter, Global methane emissions from agriculture and other sources have surged in recent years, threatening efforts to slow climate change, an international study has found. \u00a0According to the study, methane production surged in 2007 and grew rapidly in 2014 and 2015. \u00a0The causes of the surge are not well understood but are being attributed to cattle production and rice production. \u00a0There are other natural and human causes as well, including byproducts from oil exploration and wetlands. \u00a0You can read more about it at <em>Drovers<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cattlenetwork.com\/news\/industry\/study-cows-and-rice-paddies-boost-methane-emissions?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1aaU1XVmpNbVJqWkdGayIsInQiOiIwcURqazZLM1dzNmYzcDJHK2RkWUtxNUlDVUYyNDRyWExMbWdRT1ZKRDYxT2kybStSV1wvYlwvOUs4djZsZG84NER5S1phb2NXR1pvMkNsanJuS1ZGbXJONEZtR1ZKWU9lVGVhMkgybVd2amRoSVZyVDNWRE5rRG4wZDlRNFhnK2JVIn0%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8029\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Dudley_Farm_Cracker_cows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8029\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Dudley_Farm_Cracker_cows-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Dudley_Farm_Cracker_cows-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Dudley_Farm_Cracker_cows-222x138.jpg 222w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Dudley_Farm_Cracker_cows.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida cracker cattle. Source: Dudley Farm Paint Out 29<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Drovers\u00a0newsletter, Global methane emissions from agriculture and other sources have surged in recent years, threatening efforts to slow climate change, an international study has found. \u00a0According to the study, methane production surged in 2007 and grew rapidly in 2014 and 2015. \u00a0The causes of the surge are not well understood but are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","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\/9507","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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}