• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    easily decades ago

    Decades ago (in the early 2000s) it was considered settled science and taught in schools (in Canada at least). It was studied by scientists at oil companies decades before that. It’s been known for like 50 years now, almost an entire lifetime.

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      More than half of all the carbon emissions humans have ever produced were produced in those 50 years[1].