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Environment & Energy

Think. Again.

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1. Why does he sound like he was born yesterday...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Aug 14, 2024, 06:41 AM

Aug 2024

"This amount of extreme heat events is beyond anything ever seen or even thought possible before,” he said. “The months from February 2024 to July 2024 have been the most record-breaking for every statistic.”

We've known about the effects we can expect from CO2 emissions since the 1940s.

In case anyone is interested, here's the link to the IPCC reports that have been spelling it out for decades:

https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

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