Is it that simple?

Well, there is an elephant in the room in the Atlantic and really in the global atmosphere, and it is this El Nino event that has been brewing since the spring.

Now, we think of El Nino as more of a Pacific pattern, and that's true.

That's where it's forming right now, but it does start to develop global impacts as we go into the fall, and we're seeing one of those in the Atlantic right now.

As we get those stronger upper-level winds that blow across the tropics, that has really taken the Caribbean out of play.

That is a region where we usually see storms form.

We think of that as the runway where storms can slowly develop over the course of days before they move toward the U.S. And instead, those upper-level winds have been so strong, they've created such a high level of wind shear in that region that no storms have formed in the Caribbean, and any storms that have moved close to that region have gotten torn apart.

So should we just completely let our guards down for the rest of September here?

So can you help our listeners understand the critical intersection between plant-based living and environmental preservation? How do those two come together?

Yes.

Of course.

Well, there's a number of different angles we could work on here.

Think about environmental issues.

Perhaps the biggest issue of all is land use.

Land use is the facilitation of water pollution.

It is tragic.

Thank you, Corey.

Yeah, you bet.

So notoriously, agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, you got methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide.

Methane, over a 100-year timeline, methane will break down into carbon dioxide and water over that time.

So when first emitted into our atmosphere, though, methane is 120 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Well, over 20 years, or while over 100 years, it's 20 times more potent in the atmosphere.

So you can see that sort of here, methane, CO2 equivalents over time.

Would that have a negative impact or would that be great? What are your thoughts?