We’re over-freezing our food. Turning up the temperature slightly could avoid 17 Mt of CO2
We’re over-freezing our food. Turning up the temperature slightly could avoid 17 Mt of CO2
“This temperature corresponds to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, so it was “probably a round, easy number to remember”
That’s what Allouche and team will be working on next, as they build their research summary into a full report, to be published in September 2024. “These findings give good reasons for ‘3 degrees of change’ to be further explored,” Allouche says.
Three Degrees Of Change: Frozen food in a Resilient and Sustainable Food System (PDF)
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a change that would avoid 17 metric tons of greenhouse gasses
Uh, that's so obviously massively wrong. The headline seems correct though, it's about 17 MILLION metric tons.
Doesn't Mt mean magatons?
1 million tons are 1 megaton