• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And they’re wrong according to virtually every person who actually studies the climate for a living, so they might as well pretend it’s made up.

    And it’s stupid anyway. You might be able to deny human-caused climate change, but you can’t deny smog and pollution. Greener energy sources mean less smog and pollution. Why isn’t that a good thing to them?

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      1 year ago

      It’s a fundamental lack of understanding of math and science.

      There’s a video going around conservative circles talking about how CO2 only makes up .04 percent of the atmosphere, and therefore even if it were doubled it would be less than 1/1000th of the atmosphere, so it’s not worth worrying about.

      I tried to explain to my father that that’s exactly why we’re able to have such an impact. They don’t understand that we’re able to make a much larger relative impact on CO2 versus Nitrogen and Oxygen and therefore a larger impact on global temperatures.