Sweet. Fine them for 70 years of knowingly contributing to air pollution and climate damage.
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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We can't do that; it might harm The Economy. Best we can do is a stern scolding and a gentleman's agreement to not do it again.
Sue them.
Nationalize them.
That works.
I just learned about Eunice Foote yesterday. We've known about it since 1856!
Kind of.
John Tyndalls independent discoveries in 1859 generally laid out the concept of the greenhouse effect - how these substances can create a cycle that lead to increasing temperatures. This was built on understandings of works nearly a hundred years earlier around how the sun and atmosphere propagate heat.
Eunice’s works work was more that an atmosphere made up of this gas would be hotter than our present.
Basically her discoveries fell to obscurity and are more of an interesting historical footnote. Tyndalls directly lead to what we know today and is part of an evolutionary chain of understanding.
I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!