Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 23:23:48 JST Jonathan Schofield

   in reply to

   …In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote discovered the greenhouse effect of “carbonic air” (CO2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote

   And by then, Britain had about 200 years of systematically pumping CO2 into the air from coal use https://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/a-z-of-industries/coal/

   The very next year, in 1857, “the world’s first systematic oil refinery began operation in Ploiesti” https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-oil/31510946.html

   Guess which won out: the availability of a one-time energy jackpot or precaution informed by earth sciences?