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These so-called "scientists" aren't even following true science. Stop the disgusting margarine nonsense and look at the natural order. Support small farms and sustainable, chemical-free growing practices that include non-vax, non-chemical, natural lives for the animals as well.

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Um, Butter from fossil fuel carbon sources or natural gas haas a name. Margarine. It's been around for awhile, whether made from plant based fats or otherwise.

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Horrible artificial processed food. Fats from beef and pigs nourish us and provide fat-soluble vitamins A and D that our bodies know what to do with.

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Is this study based on regenerative farming practices or conventional farming practices?

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Hi there - I'm contacting you from The Week Junior magazine in the UK. I've emailed hello@savor-it.com today with an urgent press images request - I've also reached out to Kathleen via LinkedIn. Please could I get a response as soon as possible? Our deadline is Friday 12 July. Thanks so much.

Mandy Rowson

Picture Editor

The Week Junior

www.theweekjunior.co.uk

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Interesting post!! Congrats on the new paper, look forward to reading.

Wondering if “1-2 degrees C” is a typo since current warming is around 1.2 from all sources?

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Had the same thought, but I think that's because we're measuring global warming from "pre-industrial" levels, but a huge amount of the forest clearing took place *before* the industrial revolution, and thus isn't counted in the way we normally represent global warming.

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Thanks for reading---and sorry for not seeing these comments earlier!

Just wanted to confirm Dylan's read here: "1-2 degrees C" is referring to *estimates* we've seen for global warming due to anthropogenic land clearing over the last ~10,000 years. Refs 6 and 7 go into these estimates in more detail.

A relevant excerpt from Ref 7 referencing William Ruddiman's work:

"By the time the industrial revolution got under way, we had already raised the global temperature by an average of 0.8°C and by as much as 2 °C at high latitudes, he proposes - enough to deflect an impending ice age. Today's winters would be as much as 7 degrees cooler at high latitudes if it were not for the pre-industrial input of greenhouse gases, he says."

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