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i think about how wendy o williams & the plasmatics knew more about global warming in the 80s than half our politicians do now

pophouse@pophouse.bsky.social

i think about how music has been telling this for a long time this is the narrated intro to wendy o williams/plasmatics rock opera maggots from 1987

And now the Swedish government is in front of the Not giving a single shit-line, even backing the tape up since before Högbom and Arrenius figured it out 😞😭

Yes but. Today we are being bombarded by 'it's China', or 'it's Australia', or 'it's jet travel', or fracking, not to mention the infamous 'hockey stick' graph. (I admit to not having read the article linked to, but this is my reaction to your graphic.)

It's the sum of fossil carbon burnt. Most of it is burnt for electricity, some is burnt for transport. It's no one country, though the ten biggest are obviously the ten biggest polluters. It isn't solvable by any individual action.

Unfortunately that’s a photo of Eunice Foote’s daughter Mary Foote Henderson, despite being commonly misidentified as Foote online. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe has lead a multi-year effort to get a verifiable image of Foote & we don’t have certainty but can rule out images of her daughters.

Title text: "Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997)."