Episode 56 - Repentance, Climate Change, and Living in a Fish

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 8 February 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: How much impact to cows have on climate change? How far into the past could we go before genetic shift would make it impossible to reproduce with ancient humans? What are the scientific benefits of repentance? Could a human service in the stomach of a fish? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. How much impact to cows have on climate change? Are cows the cause of global warming? The World’s Leading Driver of Climate Change: Animal Agriculture How far into the past could we go before genetic shift would make it impossible to reproduce with ancient humans? Anatomically modern human From Wikipedia It Wasn't Just Neanderthals: Ancient Humans Had Sex with Other Hominids What are the scientific benefits of repentance? Repentance defined Could a human service in the stomach of a fish? Have any real-life Jonahs been swallowed by whales and lived? Could a Whale Accidentally Swallow You? It Is Possible How could Jonah survive three days in the belly of a “whale”? Preproduction by Andrew Galucki. Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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0:00.0	Repentance, Climate Change, and Living in a Fish.
0:04.0	All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. You've got questions, he's got answers, even though he may not understand,
0:16.7	I'll talk anyway.
0:17.7	We have problems.
0:19.5	He won't solve them, but I'm talking, talking, talking till it's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life.
0:27.0	Ask Science Mike.
0:30.0	Welcome to Ask Science Mike, a weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life.
0:38.0	Huge stuff happening on the events front. Not only is lost and found coming in the near future to Phoenix and to Los Angeles
0:45.0	but I'm actually going on tour with Gunger. Go to ask science mic.com
0:50.0	click on the events button to learn more
0:52.0	I'll talk about it at the end of the show, but for now let's get it started.
0:57.0	Hi Science Mike, my name is Kate and I live in Tallahassee. We've actually met once but it was right after your concussion so I think you may not remember me but that's okay.
1:12.0	I have a question about global warming and CO2 emissions and greenhouse
1:18.3	gases, specifically as it pertains to cattle ranching or cattle raising in the livestock industry.
1:26.0	I recently watched the documentary on Netflix called Calsparacy and the information in it was really shocking to me and sort of knew I had never heard of it before that
1:38.4	instead of CO2 emissions from like cars and transportation, this documentary claimed that the biggest
1:46.5	contributor to global warming and greenhouse gas emissions was the
1:51.1	livestock industry.
1:52.7	Now this documentary really sort of rocked my world
1:55.8	and I pretty much immediately decided that I would begin
1:59.6	the process of going vegan and my girlfriend got on board and we were really excited about
2:04.4	that but my parents reminded me that I have a tendency to kind of see things in
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