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stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago

DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion

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DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion

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Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle's emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.
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    It makes me laugh as in the UK a vehicle bellowing smoke due to an old or broken down engine has always been an indicator of someone being broke and unable to fix it upgrade it, these wankers are intentionally making their trucks look like they’re skin flints.

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      I’ve encountered them a number of times in my area and I’ve always had the urge to rear end them and use the excuse that I couldn’t see because there was a lot of black smoke for some reason.

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        This might make you laugh then:

        https://bikeportland.org/2014/06/20/truck-driver-rollin-coal-riders-one-bike-cop-107657

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        It’s a bad idea because that’s a flimsy excuse. It would put you at fault more than likely.

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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