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Blues Heron

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2. And yet we think nothing of driving to the store to pick up some milk - 3000 pounds of steel on the move
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 09:00 AM
Oct 2023

for a quart of milk. Do the math - 3 watts of greenhouse gas radiative forcing per square meter, is the same as an array of 1000 watt space heaters covering the entire earth, all land area and all seas, all mountains, every desert, every glacier - about 60 feet apart in all directions. An unimaginable number of heaters all blasting away 24/7. You are going to feel that eventually.

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