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What do they mean “poised to be?” Its august 2nd.
I'd imagine official verification and so forth is yet to come.
And August could be hotter.
This is a climate catastrophe! If you still drive a petrol car, you are the problem! Those poor Iranians…
Stop putting the blame on the individual when corporations easily account for over 70% of global emissions and pollution. My gas powered car isn't gonna change shit.
This guy is a gigantic troll, look at his profile.
You're trolling, right? Can't possibly be this delusional...
It appears, the username, does check out.
Unbelievable. The data is right in front of you. Not hard to analyze. You don’t need to process high temperatures!
Those poor Iranians
I suggest you try to analyse the data. Iranians have a very high energy usage per capita - at least as high as any EU country and probably higher. The country is a major oil and gas producer, and the population is accustomed to cheap petrol prices due to heavy subsidisation by the government. You won't find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment. Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.
You won't find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment.
Lack of choice and potential lobbying from the car industry might also be factors here. I can't imagine anyone who would drive if there was cheap and plentiful public transport available.
Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.
I'd say the same for the Americans. A century of pro-car policy removes the illusion of choice.
Big yikes. As long as the grid that you plug your EVs into is based off of fossil fuels, you're not solving anything.
My grid is based off of wind. Yours could be too. Demand it, importantly demand the laws that allow it be built . Many areas have outlawed them, or may as well because of all the red tape. They are standard these days and so permits should be shall issue in request for a standard design.
I switched to paper straws so I think that makes me carbon neutral now.
Great! Every bit helps!
Good point, I'll just commute 2 hours both ways by bike then. Thanks for your contribution. /s
I’m not going to have kids so I feel like I can drive whatever because my carbon footprint ends with me. I’m also fairly fatalistic about climate change. Humans are too stupid to stop it and when enough of us die the problem will solve itself.
The main culprits are the big oil companies. They made the carbon footprint term to make us feel guilty and shift the blame from the biggest polluters.
Yep! And I bet it'll turn out in a few decades that it will come out they were also behind the Doomerism we're seeing a lot of on social media these days. "Well it's too late so why try?" Is much more comfortable than "We have to sacrifice a lot of comfort, but if we all try really hard we can do it."
Weird thought, you ever think oil executives have nightmares about a global collective wanting to bring them to the guillotine?
They made the decisions that got us here, they have the power to turn this around, but we are to sacrifice everything while they continue to live in luxury and do nothing to help? Does this seriously seem reasonable to you?
The main culprit is likely the US military, except that they don't allow themselves to be monitored.
Indeed they corrupted the narrative to avoid blame, to maintain profits.
But who are they selling the oil to? Us.
We are all sinners in this
All sinners, yep. Cool story buddy.
Most pollution from cars comes from the tires, not the gas burning. If you drive any car at all, you're the problem
Citation needed.. tires are a problem, but gasoline is farm worse pollution overall. Unless you cherry pick pollutant.
I believe most of the microplastics that are in everything we consume come from car tires. So probably less a climate change problem, but still an issue.
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