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Mr. Dr. Science Teacher
Personal blog · mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.comsciencecareer
Mr. Dr. Science Teacher is a personal blog at mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com about science and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its figures on bison versus cattle emissions and livestock greenhouse gas math, used to back claims about the emissions of meat and milk alternatives.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A high school science teacher with a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution reflects on teaching, science, and teaching science in the public schools.
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/09/21/bison-vs-cow-greenhouse-gas-emissions/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-23
What Hacker News says?
Honestly flabbergasted by the amount of ignorance in this thread, it was definitely not what I expected from the Hacker News crowd. - Cattle does not eat soy byproducts and soy production is definitely not driven by human consumption. Not by value, not by mass. [1] - Bison herds did not produce as much methane as today's cattle. [2] - Cattle does not strictly use land unsuitable for growing crops. Also, this complet…
Comment linking /2019/09/21/bison-vs-cow-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
on “Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)”You could cut your agricultural megafauna emissions in half by switching from cattle to bison. https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/bison-vs...
Comment linking /2019/09/21/bison-vs-cow-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
on “Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months”Here's the math: https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/bison-vs...
Comment linking /2019/09/21/bison-vs-cow-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
on “Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk”