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Every single day I’m pissed that Americans allowed this corrupt, sycophantic, greedy, hateful, unfathomably stupid, lying swamp of a government into power.
I’m disappointed and mad, and it’s utterly unforgivable.
Whether you chose not to vote, voted third party, or voted republican, you directly made the world a worse place. It’s unforgivable what you did. Fuck you.
Signed your former friend (more like cousin, really), a Canadian.
Every single day I'm pissed that Americans aren't doing more to remove that fuck.
And we did it without the majority. Election fuckery and propaganda. It's a winning combination!
Ah yes, the "blame the sun, we cant do anything about it" conspiracy, brought to you by Exxon-Mobil
misleading
Yeah that's not the word I would use
Next week: Trump’s EPA says brown people and universal healthcare are the main drivers of climate change.
From my perspective, the climate issue is not easy to fix but it is easy to understand.
The planet closest to the sun is Mercury. On Mercury a day is equivalent to 88 days on Earth. In sunlight Mercury can be as hot as 420 °C (790 °F). In darkness Mercury can be as low as −170 °C (−270 °F). The reason for the difference is that Mercury has no atmosphere and is unable to retain heat.
Now lets look at Venus. A day on Venus is 116.75 Earth days. The daytime and nighttime temperatures on Venus are nearly identical and have an average of 464 °C (867 °F). Venus has a very dense atmosphere that is mainly composed of carbon dioxide (96.5%) with the remainder being mostly nitrogen.
The sun may be the source of the heat, but the reason it stays warmer or colder on our planet is directly related to how much carbon dioxide is present in the atmosphere. Increasing carbon dioxide makes us warmer and decreasing carbon dioxide makes us cooler. There are other factors, but those are the basics.
The only practical control we have on carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is controlling and moderating our use of fossil fuel.
It really is that simple.
great way of seeing it! I think it like this: Almost all the energy that the earth has received had come from the sun, a bit from its core temperature, a bit from its rotation, a bit from moon's rotation and a bit from impacting objects. This solar energy was stored by living organisms as lower entropy organic matter through almost 4 bn years, reducing the amount of heating to the earth by using that energy in a controlled manner. All that "stored heat" is now being released in a span of centuries, and the cherry on top: producing green house gasses.