RE: CH4, Intellectual Ambidexterity vs. Reductive Reasoning Conventional climate accounting relies heavily on reductive reasoning, auditing localized point-source emissions while neglecting the broader ecosystem context. This paper introduces the framework of intellectual ambidexterity as a necessary counterweight to this reductionist approach. By evaluating the global methane (CH4) budget, the behavior of hydroxyl radicals (OH), the photosynthesis–methanogenesis–hydroxyl radical (PM[OH]) cycle, and the mechanics of a circular bioeconomy, this article demonstrates that atmospheric gas accumulation is driven by chemical residence times, land-management matrices, and localized oxidant sinks rather than simple gross emissions. Finally, this article highlights the systemic fallacies of modern point-source ledger auditing, which implicitly suggests draining global aquatic systems or eliminating biological upcycling channels to minimize immediate gaseous output. Link to full blog: tinyurl.com/54bcsds6 cc. @fleroy1974 @GHGGuru @PabloPastos @CSUChicoRegenAg @AcresUSA @UnderstandingAg @cags_grindrod @csmaje

In the attached clip at 1.25x from Barn Talk, @GGunthorp talked about the JBS Crime Family, speculated as to whether Argentina beef coming to the US was the same trim rejected by China due to antibiotic residues, how neither side of our political divide believes the government, coming together to find common ground, and changing course is a very slow process facing a lot of resistance from entrenched interests that prefer the broken and corrupt status quo. cc. @RepThomasMassie @RepHageman @chelliepingree @KenDBerryMD @SecRollins @CoryBooker @TimRyan @drmarkhyman @SecKennedy @RCALFUSA @AmerGrassfed @whiteoakpasture @Okie_Rancher @AustinFrerick @matthewstoller @FarmActionUS @johnthune @MikeCallicrate

In the attached clip at 1.25x from Barn Talk, @GGunthorp discussed how government food policy should ensure resiliency and security, but instead promotes consolidation. Greg also said livestock and Ag are essential for a vibrant rural America. cc. @RepThomasMassie @RepHageman @chelliepingree @KenDBerryMD @SecRollins @CoryBooker @TimRyan @drmarkhyman @SecKennedy @RCALFUSA @AmerGrassfed @whiteoakpasture @AustinFrerick @matthewstoller @Okie_Rancher @MikeCallicrate @johnthune

In the attached video, @SaraKeough2 explains why MEAT IS MEDICINE with shout-outs to @fleroy1974 @grassbased @bigfatsurprise @vanvlietphd @TyBealPhD @SBakerMD & others. FYI @KenDBerryMD @RCALFUSA @DefendingBeef @AmerGrassfed @SamaHoole @wilsonhlthcoach @JayneReesBuxton @AlpacaAurelius @bschermd @regenranching @joerogan ·

On hydroxyl radicals & increasing the atmospheric oxidation capacity - Key points & an outline lachefnet.wordpress.com/2026… FYI new blog: @CSUChicoRegenAg @cags_grindrod @UnderstandingAg @samdknowlton @SusFoodTrust @GHGGuru @fleroy1974 @Johnkempf @csmaje

Vegan myths & half truths versus reality lachefnet.wordpress.com/2025… cc. @herdyshepherd1 @JamesMelville @JoannaBlythman @JayneReesBuxton @fleroy1974 @bigfatsurprise @KenDBerryMD

Nevermind, found your livestream coincidently with Bill and Nicolette xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YqKDZjpj…

Commentary: The forgotten role of grazing in America’s grasslands nvdaily.com/nvdaily/commenta… "...The environmental movement has long demonized grazing without recognizing its conservation potential. It’s time for an approach that supports responsible land stewardship and acknowledges the rightful place of ruminants in our native landscapes. Grasslands need grazers, and grazers need advocates who understand their essential role in the American landscape. If you want to preserve nature and native landscapes, don’t fight cattle — support better ranching." cc. @TimRyan @RepThomasMassie @RepHageman @SBakerMD @KenDBerryMD @AmerGrassfed @RCALFUSA @AcresUSA @johnkempf @GrassBased @KarlThidemann @commongrounddoc @NicoleShanahan @kissthegroundCA @whiteoakpasture @regenranching @soil4climate @DefendingBeef @herdyshepherd1

Attached 1.25x clip from 2018 "Off the Grid with Thomas Massie". In this clip @RepThomasMassie (wearing @Polyface_Farm tee) discusses raising grass finished beef cattle rotated thru pastures on marginal land + the regulations small producers have to deal w. that raises their costs. Full video here on YT youtu.be/18_yXt1s2yc?si=9rlP… Cc. @AmerGrassfed @DefendingBeef @SBakerMD @RCALFUSA @TuckerCarlson @commongrounddoc @regenranching @CarbonCowboys @peterbyck @travisbrowneMMA @KenDBerryMD @MikeCallicrate @GGunthorp @joerogan @RobertKennedyJr @FoodLiesOrg

After one's realizes the important role livestock play in rebuilding soil organic matter faster & regenerating degraded soils, it's really no wonder why a vegan restaurateur & farmer is transitioning her small restaurant chain (Sage Kitchen) w. 3 locations in LA from a vegan concept to a regenerative one. Meats vs plants is a false dichotomy. Especially when it comes to planetary health, the real distinction that needs to be made is between regenerative vs degenerative forms of food production for ALL the food we consume. Thus the HOW and appropriateness of WHERE matters just as much or more than the WHAT is grown, raised or caught, especially since any food can be raised in ways that range from very bad to very good including crops & specialty crops. The emphasis, therefore, should be on BEST practices rather than on the mistaken notion of foods being either "good" or "bad". cc. @kissthegroundCA @commongrounddoc @JayneReesBuxton @eaterla @JoannaBlythman @SBakerMD

This NYT interview with @_HannahRitchie quoted below illustrates the point I've been making about too many data-scientists specifically in regards to agriculture. It's one I've made for a while, and that's the disconnect between extracting numbers from papers read on computers screens (esp. meta-analysis) and having real world experience to understand what any of that quantified data actually represents especially in an ecosystem context. One blatant example I've noted before (in my Regenesis critique lachefnet.wordpress.com/2022…) of this disconnect was OWiD analysis, done by Ritchie, in regards to soya. In that analysis, OWiD appeared not to understand that the same bushel of soybeans produced both the meal and the oil. And thus commodity crops weren't planted for specific uses. That analysis also didn't appear to understand how the 2006 Soya Moratorium impacted deforestation which I detailed in my Deforestation Process blog, lachefnet.wordpress.com/2021…. In this NYT interview, she asserted that organic production due to lower yields will require more conversion of forest into farmland. That frequently made assertion is also based on review of meta-analysis as well as a lack of understanding as to the extent of land degradation. As Dr. David Montgomery noted in this attached "yield gap" clip, most of the studies included in such meta-analysis looked at degraded, transitioning or recently transitioned systems where soil health hadn't yet been restored. So what actually happens in regenerative organic systems after such soil health restoration has occurred is that yields are similar (or as @johnkempf has demonstrated, greater). Plus more degraded land is put back into production. And thus more land doesn't have to be converted into farmland. Again, if you look at deforested regions, there's a lot of degraded land that's simply been abandoned. Dynamic agroforestry is a way such degraded deforested land can be restored. In grassland ecosystems where grazing is most appropriate, land regeneration greatly increasing the carrying capacity of such land often over 300% and sometimes up to even over a 1000%. I noted this too in my Regenesis critique pointing out the flaws in the Hayek paper Monbiot cited. So, land has to be regenerated plus more appropriated utilized rather than further "intensified" via industrial Ag and other forms of degenerative Ag. Regen Ag, as I define it for terrestrial systems, includes regenerative agriculture, regenerative agroecology and regenerative agroforestry. This is a wide array of context appropriate practices rather than universal industrial silver bullet solutions that techno-optimists and Eco-modernists are so enamored with. Also in this NYT interview, without differentiating between biogenic and thermogenic emissions or accounting for hydroxyl oxidation, she makes another common claim that transportation of avocados (or similar foods) is less impactful than local production particularly of ruminant meat. This is the claim deduced most frequently from another old meta-analysis, the one by Joseph Poore. Though lots of limitations with that meta-analysis starting with the the time frame (2000 to 2016) and inclusion/exclusion criteria of that study. The 29 or so papers on beef production in this paper are all based on GWP100. So no accounting for hydroxyl oxidation. The few that mention carbon sequestration assume soil carbon saturation. The grass finished systems included NPK applications as well as extremely long finishing times. The few papers using AMP practices done during this time frame (eg by Teague) were excluded due to the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Most of the research done during this time frame was from industrial sources and in response to 2006 Long Shadow. So really not a review of best practices. More an overview of worst practices. Not to mention the understanding of soil science has evolved a ton, and continues to evolve, since the papers included in Poore's meta-analysis were done (none of which looked at the soil science). Similar problems with relying on old data that doesn't account for newer understanding of microbial soil science occurred in FCRN's Grazed and Confused meta-analysis....yet another meta-analysis not accounting for hydroxyl radicals. And no, the new Nature paper looking at only the top 30 cm of labile carbon does not "prove" that soil carbon sinks are finite. That paper just further relied on the saturation myth. Anyway, all of the above are just a few of many points that illustrate that data analysis without a better understanding of the underlying (especially soil and range) science as it occurs in an ecosystem context just generates a lot of out of context statistics used to make pretty graphics and misleading arguments like the many that Ritchie routinely makes about food production. Now as for the "doomer" versus "techno-optimsist" versus "climate denier" debate, what to me and many other I know creates a lot of cynicism are the climate grifters like Bill Gates flying around in his Lear jet while proclaiming that people have to eat the plant based meats his foundation heavily invested in made from the the industrially grown forms of production he also supports and pushes especially in Africa. And, it's really not that big of coincidence that Gates makes donations to organizations that will generate content that's used to manufacture consent for his IP driven investments which he pushes as climate solutions. So, it's also not a coincidence that One World in Data {OWiD], Ritchie's employer, gets a lot of its funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to push her "tecno-optimistic" silver bullet solutions that rely on biotech, Agrochemicals, IP controlled alt proteins, etc. The only real question about these "coincidences" is whether or not Ritchie is aware that she's just an oligarch's pawn? cc. @JayneReesBuxton @SusFoodTrust @JoannaBlythman @fleroy1974 @ffinlocostain @csmaje @ZwartblesIE @robbwolf @coolydoody @PabloPastos @turbotechdog @PeteGDunne

Recently came across the term "agriwilding". Googled it since somehow I had never seen the term before. The first article that appeared per the search was this one resilience.org/stories/2020-… by Rebecca Hosking from the Oxford Real Farming Conference in 2020. Funny, I had heard Hosking at this conference and corresponded with her afterwards, yet still hadn't heard the term "agriwilding" before. Regardless, wish more people in the UK. Ireland and the EU read and listened to brilliant people like Hosking rather than to the more polarizing outspoken absolutists/sophists yelling from their media soap boxes. With that comment made, I still prefer the world regeneration than "wilding" or rewilding. Why? Here in the States, rewilding has a different immediate historical context with indigenous people on this continent otherwise known as Turtle Island. Here there's a much more recent history of co-inhabitation of land with other creatures. and mankind tending that land. So land was never really "wild". Ignoring how the land was tended by First Nations, reflects a colonial mindset that denigrated and continues to denigrate those First Nation members. Maybe I'm mistaken, but "rewilding" doesn't seem to have the same negative connotations across the pond. Maybe that's because in the UK & EU, any similar immediate context or relationship of indigenous people on the land seems a bit more remote as is any memory of large herds of wild ruminants. Those large herds on Turtle Island weren't nearly extirpated until the late 1800's. Whereas in the UK & EU, the ecological amnesia seems much longer, because those herds of auroch, wisent, Irish elk, etc were extirpated (along with their predators) much much longer ago. So the UK & EU once too had vast expanses of grasslands. Everything always wasn't just some pristine mythical forest. Anyway, contrary to what certain absolutists claim, land can be restored, regenerated and/or "agriwilded" with well managed livestock. So livestock isn't inherently bad. Though this requires the homo sapiens managing this livestock to be better Keystone species ....rather than the destructive one homo sapiens have been for too much of our history. cc. @csmaje @ZwartblesIE @PeteGDunne @JoannaBlythman @PabloPastos @lowcarbGP @ffinlocostain @cags_grindrod