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03/07/20

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Originally posted by birdman29: ↑

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Even if the percentage of electric cars in the world were to rise to 15 times their present numbers, electric cars would only reduce global CO2 emissions by 1 percent, he declared, citing a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
For his part, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said that in 2018, electric cars saved 40 million tons of CO2 worldwide, sufficient to reduce global temperatures by a mere 0.000018°C — or a little more than a hundred-thousandth of a degree Celsius — by the end of the century.
“If you think you can save the climate with electric cars, you’re completely wrong,” Birol said.

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Oh yeh. Like, if you do your calcs on cars powered from electricity from 90% fossil fuels, are you surprised?

We'll get to near 100% non-carbon energy.

Do the sums again, muppets.

More half baked, dim witted denial argument.
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