• Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So, damn. I was hoping for a very cool report on how we would die instantly in a fiery explosion, but it’s just dumping more carbon into the atmosphere and slowly worsening climate change.

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      1 month ago

      I can hear climate change deniers already. “It’s not humans, it’s the volcanoes”

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        1 month ago

        It is true that volcanoes have an effect. It’s just nothing compared to the scale humans are working at.

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          Volcanoes release less than 1% of the CO2 of anthropogenic emissions, according to USGS. But they also have a cooling effect by releasing sulfur particles that reflect sunlight. So yeah, volcanoes pretty much a wash, or at least de minimis compared to humans.

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        1 month ago

        followed by Trump drawing a cartoon dick nuke on the map and claiming it’s the only way to stop climate change.