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Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.
by sollewitt 1y ago
Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoOn the upside, since Trump's tariffs are going to make importing tomatoes/etc from Mexico in winter unaffordable, maybe winter here will become warm enough that we can grow them here! The Iowa corn crop may start failing, but we can start growing pineapples instead. Cows eat pineapples, right ?
- krn1p4n1c 1y agoCorn won’t fail, they’ll get 2 planting seasons like they do in Texas atm.
- laurencerowe 1y agoAbout 45% of the US corn crop is turned in ethanol for transport which is even worse for the climate than the gasoline it replaces. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
- ch0wn 1y agoOr powering the current AI bubble with a buildout of climate-wrecking energy infrastructure. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-for-metas-10b-data-center-and-not-everyone-is-happy/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-...