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It's not that they didn't know what would happen to us.
It's that they didn't care what would happen to us.
Am I missing something? How does 2 kg of coal release 7 kg of CO2?
CO2 is 72.7% oxygen by weight, and 27.3% carbon. 2kg is 28.5% of 7kg, so with rounding it works out even if that is assuming that the coal has no impurities - it may be closer to 6kg but essentially it takes oxygen from the air and adds it to the carbon in the coal to form CO2
Exxon knew it as early as 1957. We're not going to stop burning fossil fuels unless the whole system collapses.
Politics last two decades acting all surprised when scientist and ecologist been telling them for more than a century... Silver lining is they won't be lying for another century if they keep ignoring the issue, we'd all be dead
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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