Aren’t there still people trying to suggest that we still don’t know if climate change is scientifically understood/proven? This is crazy that we knew about this so long ago!
Not seriously, no. Are there people lying in order to betray their entire species for absolutely no benefit? Yes.
It’s a good thing someone noticed this back then, and the world dumped the coal industry. Imagine how fucked we’d be now if this was completely ignored.
Oh how right/wrong they were… 😮
At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.
What they couldn’t predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically
interestingly enough in the early 1900 there were more electric cars than ICEs in north america
Because they never account for exponential consumption growth. It was “a few centuries” at current consumption.
To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.
That was probably fairly accurate at that time.
Look at the historical data here:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
BTW, the large recent drop in co2 emissions, covid.
While kicking The can down the road, you come across a sign.
BRIDGE OUT AHEAD
What do you do?
- Continue kicking the can, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- I don’t believe in bridges.
- Even if God let the bridge collapse, which he wouldn’t, I’ll go to heaven if I fall and die, so who cares?
- Pick up the can and go find a dumpster.
- There’s squirrels in my pants! Jump to safety!
More like decades
