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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Idea scratchpad:

  1. Hire celebrities and late night talk show hosts to endorse the product and/or do skits about the product
  2. Incentivize the product by offer pairing, example: offer free donut or free burger and fries along with product
  3. Schedule airtime for industry experts to proselytize the product's efficacy
  4. Offer different versions of product from loosely "competing" vendors. The natural human tendency to form tribes will carry the promotion of said product.
  5. Overtly threaten your potential consumers: "If you don't consume then you're going to lose your means of income!"
  6. Tie the consumption of product to their natural rights, while sneakily rebranding rights simply as "privileges" that can be revoked in response to product refusal.

These aren't my own ideas. I'm just borrowing them from some experts in the field.