this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
120 points (99.2% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
5194 readers
1209 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
We have natural oils and we are good enough in organic chemistry to turn that into what we need. The amounts needed are so small that it basically does not matter.
I'm not being pedantic, but do you have examples of natural oils that we could use as viable replacements? I would seriously love to learn about them.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019452222005118
Thank you!