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Originally Posted by bogmonster
If you look at the hard numbers that the climate people put out, transportation is a very small contributor to CO2. One of the biggest is air conditioning.
To that point, all those that truly believe in global warming, please post your addresses and I will personally stop by and pull your air conditioner cut out switch so that you are no longer a contributor.
Wait, what? It’s not your air conditioner that is the problem, just mine? How could I be so blind?
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Do you have a link for those numbers?
Our World in Data has slightly different numbers. Road transport (of which 60% is automobiles) accounts for 11% while residential use (cooking, lighting, heating, cooling) accounts for 11%. Not exactly "very small" or "biggest."
Significantly, road transport is direct consumption of fossil fuels while a large amount (majority?) of residential use is electrical generation. Clean up the electrical generation and the residential use drops.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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