World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

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[–]FediNetizen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

CO2 generated by humans isn't pollution and it has very little effect on climate.

First statement in that sentence would be patently untrue even if the 2nd were true. Higher concentrations of CO2 lead to detectable cognitive impairment.

There's a reason that our most accurate climate models all assume a moderate degree of climate forcing from higher CO2 levels, and that models that assume little forcing from CO2 fail to accurately predict our current warming trend.

It's the same reason that Venus, which has an atmosphere consisting of mostly CO2, is way hotter than Mercury, despite receiving only 40% of the solar energy per unit area that Mercury does.

It's because CO2 is in fact a greenhouse gas. And yes, it is a net negative; the slightly higher rates of plant growth don't outweigh the land lost to sea level rise and loss of arable land due to rising temperatures.

[–]Yin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The article you linked to is mostly scamming hysteria bullshit. My first statement is 100% true. CO2 generated by humans isn't pollution. I'll let you know if it ever gets to the point of a "cognitive impairment" causing level like in a contained study that wants to scare people with fake prediction models.

It's because CO2 is in fact a greenhouse gas

Hardly. Additional CO2 has an exponentially decaying additive effect, not linear, hence why almost all of its temperature influence occurrs from the first 200 ppm and any excess past 300 post-industrial age isn't having a big impact like the fake models wanted people to believe. Additional CO2's impact on climate is minimal and heavily self-regulating with Earth's habitat. Human contribution to it is at most 3%. Earth and humans could stand to benefit from more CO2, but that doesn't sell well for letting globalist criminals "seize the means of production" (globalist-communist policies) through a manufactured doomsday scare.

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Venus is a planet in the solar system. It is the object most commonly misidentified as a flying saucer. James Earl Carter, Jr., a President of the United States of America, once thought that he saw a UFO but it was later proven that he had actually seen Venus.