34 points
Damn crazy to think this was 99 years ago… And it’ll be a whole century next year!
61 points
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33 points
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.
16 points
Is this for real?
14 points
13 points
Am I missing something? How does 2 kg of coal release 7 kg of CO2?
49 points
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
8 points
Exxon knew it as early as 1957. We’re not going to stop burning fossil fuels unless the whole system collapses.
