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.
I fear the worst. The guy who invented the formula that put lead in petrol(gasoline), spent the next, umm...i think 50 years fighting to get it removed. I expect something like this to take about 70 or 80 years at the rate the US moves. Le Sigh
Hmm, maybe you're thinking about somebody else? The guy I know of as putting lead in gasoline went on to put CFCs in fridges...
You are correct, I was thinking of the Agent Orange guy who was trying to improve soybean growth. I saw it on this TV show hosted by John Noble called "Dark Matters".