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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn't predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

That's so cool to know! Oh wait I mean hot, and also not, well anyway thanks for sharing:-P.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What they couldn't predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically

interestingly enough in the early 1900 there were more electric cars than ICEs in north america