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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change

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The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today

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    Of course we can. It’s just that the powers-that-be put hundreds of billions toward liquifying babies but zero dollars toward anything that helps the world.

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      Liquifying what?

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        BABIES

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          Read a book sometime amirite

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        deleted by creator

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      IDK, we also got rid of CFCs that were also a profit issue.

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    Good chance that climate change will solve us.

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    We fixed the o-zone, too.

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      Until we stopped looking and now the hole is bigger than it ever was.

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      It was on track to close in the next few years but it’s getting bigger again unfortunately…

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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