Doug Wilson
3 min readJan 2, 2025

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A really stupid, i.e. willfully ignorant, comment by an equally stupid person ... with, ironically, a tiny human on his lap. Jesus fucking wept.

The causal link between burning fossil fuels and climate change is well researched and documented and has been for decades. At this point, only fools and shills still attempt to deny it.

I doubt that you'll bother to read any of what follows and will instead reflexively dismiss it, but it does serve to illustrate how completely clueless your statement is.

Feel free to search on "link between fossil fuels and climate change". The results below are just the first page.

Also please note that the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels is not limited to warming.

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found that emissions from fossil fuels are the dominant cause of global warming. In 2018, 89% of global CO2 emissions came from fossil fuels and industry."

https://www.clientearth.org/latest/news/fossil-fuels-and-climate-change-the-facts/

"Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions."

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/causes-effects-climate-change

"Using fossil fuels for energy has exacted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment—from air and water pollution to global warming. That’s beyond all the negative impacts from petroleum-based products such as plastics and chemicals."

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts

"Ever since the invention of the first coal-fired steam engines of the 1700s, our burning of fossil fuels has steadily increased. Across the globe each year we now burn over 4,000 times the amount of fossils fuels burnt during 1776. The effects of the burning of fossil fuels, especially carbon dioxide, are having far-reaching effects on our climate and ecosystems."

https://ugc.berkeley.edu/background-content/burning-of-fossil-fuels/

"The rise in heat-trapping carbon dioxide—and other greenhouse gases—is the primary reason for the planet’s soaring temperatures. The global surface temperature in 2023 was 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980), making it the hottest year on record."

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152519/emissions-from-fossil-fuels-continue-to-rise

"The use of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—results in significant climate, environmental, and health costs that are not reflected in market prices. These costs are known as externalities. Each stage of the fossil fuel supply chain, from extraction and transportation to refining and burning, generates externalities. This fact sheet provides a survey of some of the externalities associated with fossil fuels."

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-climate-environmental-and-health-impacts-of-fossil-fuels-2021

"Currently, about half of all CO2 emitted is absorbed by land and ocean sinks, the Global Carbon Project reports, with the rest remaining in the atmosphere where it causes climate change. Technology-based carbon dioxide removal pulled only about 10,000 tons of the gas from the atmosphere in 2023. Over a million times more carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere this year because of fossil fuels."

https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/global-carbon-emissions-fossil-fuels-reached-record-high-2023

"burning fossil fuels releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) into the atmosphere. These gases cause the main damaging effects of fossil fuels on the environment. The levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen by 50% since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. And this rapid growth continues to be the key driver of climate change."

https://airly.org/en/fossil-fuels-and-climate-change/

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Doug Wilson
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