A new NASA-sponsored study shows that animal agriculture’s global methane emissions are 11% higher than previous estimates – co-author Dr. Ghassem Asrar explains the numbers Story Transcript DHARNA NOOR: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Dharna Noor, coming to you from Baltimore. Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gasses that gets trapped […]
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Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar is Director of Joint Global Change Research Institute of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hosted by the University of Maryland, USA. Prior to this position, he served as Director of World Climate Research Program (WCRP) in Geneva, Switzerland (2008-2013); the Deputy Administrator of Agricultural Research Service (ARS), of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2006-2008); and in several science positions with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1987-2006.