Yeah, ik. But then somebody says sth like some person in the 1880’s wanted to find out why smog was happening in cities and why cities were getting warmer every year especially as more coal-burning factories and facilities moved in. They figured out through testing that CO2 has a severe insulating effect, then theorized that with enough CO2 heat could get trapped under a blanket over the Earth, increasing temperatures severely. Later, in the 1950s, this was reaffirmed, along with other Greenhouse gasses being discovered. In the 1970s Exxon Mobile launched an internal research team to figure out the full effects of global warming, while increasing their spending to discredit climate change by a factor of 10; their research team concluded that at current rates we’d see severe warming across the globe by the year 2000, with likely irreversible and permanent effects by 2030 assuming the same rate of growth through the entire time period. Around 2000 a group of scientists reported to the UN that climate change was going to keep accelerating if nothing is done to curb GHG release, and the most conservative estimates put irreversible climate change happening around the year 2050. In 2015, during the hottest year on record, scientists found that sea ice was shrinking at a much quicker rate than it should be, especially in Antarctica, and started disregarding the ‘conservative’ climate model from earlier in the century as far too optimistic and started urging immediate, severe global action.

In 2022 we have found that a Blue Ocean Event, as in a period of time where there is less than 1 sq km of sea ice anywhere in our oceans, is likely to happen by 2025. According to earlier models this should not happen until 2030 at the earliest, and signals possibly the end of all humanity as there is nothing we can do, effectively, once that happens to stall or reverse climate change. We’re also seeing the least amount of land Ice in Antarctica in all of human history — there has never been a point in time where both humans and this level of heat have coexisted in history. Recent studies have also found that we are producing more than 200 times the amount of CO2 per year that extinction-level super-volcanoes have done historically. In other words, we are more destructive than arguably the most historically natural destructive force in Earth’s history.

And it’s still accelerating. And still people are advocating for coal use.