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SCantiGOP

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6. The reduction in energy use

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 07:54 PM

May 2020

Will have no measurable impact on the temperature of the atmosphere. That is measured in hundredths of a degree and takes years to have an impact. We have been pumping fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere since we started burning coal hundreds of years ago.

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