300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.

  • @JohnDClay
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    You’re concerned about the smoke rather than the CO2?

      • @JohnDClay
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        33 days ago

        Health wise, not global warming wise. The original post sounded like a global warming concern.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          Acid rain ain’t no problem huh.

          Post said “unnecessary pollution”.

          • @JohnDClay
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            13 days ago

            That depends on a lot more factors for how dilute it gets. I didn’t know how likely it is for the air currents to dilute the aluminum exhaust over a large enough area before it rains. Maybe someone could do some analysis, but I don’t know how.

          • @[email protected]
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            Everything is unnecessary. We could just off ourselves and there’d be no more pollution. The only reason our existence matter is the way we feel about it. Which is the same reason fireworks matter.

        • @[email protected]
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          You shoud do a calculation and show the expected change in global temperature from a fireworks show.

          • @JohnDClay
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            13 days ago

            You could find it by coverting 70k ton CO2 into ppm and multiplying by climate sensitivity.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 days ago

            That number is close to meaningless. Also don’t ask others to do large amounts of research in a lemmy comment, it won’t be accurate.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 days ago

        It’s not worse, it’s different. CO2 kills everything on earth but that takes a lot of it. The toxins you listed can give a community long term health issues without that much exposure. It’s a local problem vs a global problem.