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   GraniteGeek (granitegeek@newsie.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 07:41:32 JST GraniteGeek

   XKCD is brilliant. You knew that, of course. Today's is brilliant and sobering.

   https://xkcd.com/2889/

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 20:51:54 JST pettter

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     • Steve Easterbrook
     • Ed Davies

     @edavies @GraniteGeek @steve and quite a bit more than half of all fossil CO2 ever released has been after that date

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     Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 20:51:55 JST Ed Davies

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     • Steve Easterbrook

     @GraniteGeek 59 years next Thursday since a major government acknowledged that rising CO₂ levels affecting climate was one of the ecological problems humans faced. LBJ in a speech to Congress, 8th of February 1965.

     These things take 60 years, right?

     That's from @steve 's book Computing The Climate.