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   J D to All   
   Re: Dinosaurs changed the climate by far   
   07 Oct 25 19:08:18   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.home.repair, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: j_d@invalid.org   
      
   On 07 Oct 2025, JTEM  posted some   
   news:10c3c6e$11bha$2@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 10/7/25 9:36 AM, Ed P wrote:   
   >> On 10/7/2025 5:27 AM, Chris Voigtlander wrote:   
   >>> Dinosaurs were huge animals and they ate a lot of things that made   
   >>> them fart.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's the climate story lesson for today.   
   >   
   >> Yes, it is a factor.  So is the 150 million tons of fossil fuel we   
   >> burn every day.  Same as dinosaur farts but much faster.   
   >   
   > Fossil fuels are planet-coolers.   
   >   
   > For starters they darken the sky -- particle pollution or   
   > "Particulates."  This is also known as "Air Pollution." Worse   
   > than darkening the sky is sulfur.   
   >   
   > Sulfur in the atmosphere becomes an aerosol that bounces the   
   > sun's energy back out into space, so less of it even reaches   
   > us. The worst offender would be coal. Yes coal is the biggest   
   > planet cooler. It's the dirtiest -- darkens the sky the   
   > most -- and contains the most sulfur. China burns more coal   
   > than the rest of the planet, btw. Everyone keeps pretending   
   > that China is playing along with the Gwobull Warbling fantasy,   
   > but they're not. They are HEAVILY reliant on coal, as is   
   > India.   
   >   
   > India hasn't even come into it's own yet. When they do, they   
   > are likely to surpass China in coal burning...   
      
   Both of those countries are in serious need of population control.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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