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minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI usually hate graphs that dont start the y at zero, and it would be better if it did, but here’s the first I found https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables It skyrocketed under trump, and then again under Biden. But like, you’re acting like this is just some personal grip I have… https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/OIL/lgpdngrgkpo/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/us-producing-more-oil-climate-change/676893/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-u-s-oil-production-reached-an-all-time-high-in-2023 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris/fact-checking-kamala-harris-on-energy-production-i/ But I think setting a new record for high temps year after year after year is a good analogy. Does it suck that it’s still happening? Yes. But that sure as fuck doesn’t mean a 10 degree increase is the same as a 0.1 degree increase in average temps over the span of a year. Like. How can you act that magnitude isn’t important at all?
I usually hate graphs that dont start the y at zero, and it would be better if it did, but here’s the first I found
https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables
It skyrocketed under trump, and then again under Biden.
But like, you’re acting like this is just some personal grip I have…
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/OIL/lgpdngrgkpo/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/us-producing-more-oil-climate-change/676893/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-u-s-oil-production-reached-an-all-time-high-in-2023
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris/fact-checking-kamala-harris-on-energy-production-i/
But I think setting a new record for high temps year after year after year is a good analogy.
Does it suck that it’s still happening?
Yes.
But that sure as fuck doesn’t mean a 10 degree increase is the same as a 0.1 degree increase in average temps over the span of a year.
Like. How can you act that magnitude isn’t important at all?