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.

[–] Uphillbothways@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this for real?

[–] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

It appears so

[–] pontata@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CephalonFaye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Koike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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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