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A PNAS study weighs irrigation's pumping emissions against 6.86 gigatons of avoided land clearing
Colorado State researchers modeled a United States where every field went rainfed, and found the replacement cropland would release 6.86 gigatons of carbon, or 363 years of what irrigation's own pumping emits in a year.
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