https://xkcd.com/2889/

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Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he’d “wasted over a full year” doing tedious calculations by hand about “so trifling a matter” as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).

  • maegul@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Which surely means there’s a metric of stupidity that gets exponentially bigger the further from of the discovery of Greenhouse Effect.