• silence7OPM
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    10 months ago

    They can limit their own greenhouse gas emissions, by doing things like subsidizing the conversion of homes which currently use fossil fuels for heating, hot water heating, and cooking to not do so, as well as subsidize solar panels on home roofs.

    This won’t lower temperatures from where they are now, but it does reduce the future increase.

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      10 months ago

      Also, it let’s people know the issue is serious. If places like Florida that are suffering the effects of climate change already don’t take it seriously, when it’s to their benefit now, why should other places do anything when it doesn’t affect them yet.

      Of course they should, and it will.

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      10 months ago

      If they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative.

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      10 months ago

      In all honesty, it sounds nice and I am not against the idea, but I really have a hard time seeing it having any measurable effect.

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        10 months ago

        Each tiny drop on its own raises the water level an imperceptible amout. Together they fill a lake