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.

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13 points

Am I missing something? How does 2 kg of coal release 7 kg of CO2?

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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

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34 points

Damn crazy to think this was 99 years ago… And it’ll be a whole century next year!

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5 points

Once, ages ago, I tried to correct the math of the Editors of Shacknews’ math and like you, I was wrong. I made it to the front page of ShackNews the next night, haha. I used the same user name as I used on a forum with my friends, so my friends all found it out, haha.

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16 points

You stuck in 2011?

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2 points

God can you please keep me stuck in 2011 too. I want out of this timeline

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61 points

Might need to check your maths on that one

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38 points
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Wait are you telling me it is not 2012?

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6 points

Of course not silly! It’s still 2011!

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8 points

Exxon knew it as early as 1957. We’re not going to stop burning fossil fuels unless the whole system collapses.

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3 points

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

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