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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Fossil fuels are carbon.

That carbon was requested from the atmosphere millions of years ago.

Burning fossil fuels releases that carbon into the atmosphere.

Think of oil as dead dinosaurs and coal as dead trees, that’s basically what it is.

All that stuff was taken out of circulation and period over an insanely long timeline, and now on a very short timeline we’re digging it up and putting it back into circulation. So fast that species can’t adapt to the change and die out before they can evolve.

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credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
My highlights had nothing to do with fossil fuels.

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This?
  
  if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet.
  
  The “watt of energy” is a watt from the coal… And they’re saying to leave the coal buried and sequestered.
  
  I assumed that was understood, so I explained how burning coal heats up the planet…
  
  You may have not realized what you highlighted had to do with fossil fuels, but that’s just because you didn’t understand.
  
  Which is fine, you did the right thing and asked questions.
  
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  - credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    If you swim in an Olympic sized pool instead of a kiddie pool, this will give you a better experience
    
    Grammatically, coal was not the subject of that sentence. But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.
    
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    givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.
    
    Weird choice to downvote the person who helped you understand, but you do you I guess.
    
    It’s definitely convinced me not to spend anytime helping you in the future though. So maybe don’t be like this to the next person, Lemmy is small and there’s only so many people to help you, eventually you’ll run out.
    
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  - deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Burning coal doesn’t significantly heat the planet. The CO2 released by this causes solar heating to be more effective by trapping the escaping infrared radiation.
    
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    givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Participate pollution melts glaciers which increases the temperature long after it fucks shit up by trapping heat in the atmosphere and blocking photosynthesis.
    
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