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You have $1 billion. How do you accelerate global warming as much as possible? Is there some super greenhouse gas that can be produced covertly in quantities sufficient to make a significant difference?

>> No.10703612

I would design, manufacture and promote an additive to bitumen that increases carbon dioxide production in all it's refined derivative products.

You'd get the autos while the world is driven by petroleum, tarmac, cosmetics, packaging and everything else in between.

>> No.10703726

>>10703612
Now /pol/ knows exactly how to destroy the world. Thank you.

>> No.10704465

>>10703612
How exactly would you create an "additive" to do this? The co2 is created when carbon atoms in an item are combined with oxygen in the air. The only way to get more co2 would be to add more carbon. Any refined products will have exactly as much carbon in them as the people doing the refining are aiming for.

>> No.10704486

$2.8 billion dollars worth of cows
$0.2 billion dollars worth of beans

>> No.10704493

>>10703598
>You have $1 billion. How do you accelerate global warming as much as possible?
donate that money to fox news

>> No.10704495

>>10703598
Probably just spend it on lobbying/bribes against environmental regulations.

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>>10703598
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, much more so than CO2. So hiring people to start pipeline & storage tank leaks would be a good start - you might even be able to trick some of the stupider enviromental protestors into doing it for you. Convince them they are making a stand against the big, evil oil & gas companies by cutting holes in their stuff.

There are also various hydrofluorocarbons that are extremely good at holding in heat. The downside is that they only last ~15 years in the atmosphere, so you better hope your plot works fast.

>> No.10704517

>>10703598
Donate it all to trump's 2020 campaign

>> No.10704637

>>10703598
Start as many forest fires as possible.

>> No.10704644

>>10703598
Kill the vegan meat thing.

>> No.10704699

You could probably produce a million tons of CCl2F2 which would give you 100-year warming potential equivalent to 10 billion tons of CO2, which is around 20% of annual global emissions.

>> No.10704727

Manufacture large amounts of r12 refrigerant and "leak" them into the atmo

done.

>> No.10704734

>>10703598
Oh yeah definitely, there are naturally occurring GHGs far worse than methane. Imagine getting chemical engineers to design a gas that is completely opaque to longwave radiation and then mass producing it and emitting it into the atmosphere. We'd be done for in less than a decade, runaway warming would end civilization and ecology as we know it.

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Fund Donald Trump's campaign and hire Russian trolls. I trust he's the most qualified to fuck the planet

>> No.10706674

>>10705040
Lmao

>> No.10706694

>>10703598
Good question. It's complicated. If the end goal is to burn as much of the petroleum products contained underground as possible, you need to make sure the logistics required to do so will be there. These include raw materials such as iron, copper etc. a sustainable agriculture system, and of course the petroleum products that acquiring these need. It's somewhat circular.

In a lot of ways the carbon tax ironically accomplishes this because it stops people from using resources for wasteful recreational activities which otherwise might be needed to maintain that logistics system through the future.

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>>10703598
>You have $1 billion. How do you accelerate global warming as much as possible?

Just follow Bill Gates lead. Do everything you can to increase the population of Africa.

In less than 25 years there will be one BILLION more Africans. That is more people then in all of Europe.

The African population bomb will more than offset ALL the climate change policies in the entire world.

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>>10707330
Average IQ is 100 by definition retard...

>> No.10707714

>>10703598
find a way to mutate plankton so that it either no longer produces oxygen or dies off en mass.

>> No.10707722

>>10707714
So your saying in order to destroy the environment we have to save the whales?