I made (which got promoted to emoji thanks to Ulyssest)

"Evergreen" and not something that will be irrelevant after the next news cycle

Climate change will remain relevant for the rest of our lives and its relevance will most likely only increase from here on out.

Have a transparent background to the greatest degree possible.

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Display a clear emotion or purpose

Gallows humor in the same vein as and

Furthermore, it is named -cool to be in line with microplastics and covid, however one of (if not the) primary concerns with climate change is rising temperatures. The name itself further propels the joke.

Formatted in PNG, GIF, or SVG to make our file optimization cycles easier. If svg initially, send svg in a seperately hosted link to WhyEssEff. Same with gif, as we render them as mp4 IIRC.

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If applicable (and it most likely will be), post body should include a suggested category and a comment should contain any other categories it may fit in with, for the benefit of our rss feeds

classic emojis

Max height of 3 times the width.

it's a square

example usage:

"It doesn't really snow as much as it used to."

reply -> :climate-cool:

"The cycles of cherry trees in Japan are not as they used to be."

reply -> :climate-cool:

"Most of the seasons besides summer don't really seem to exist anymore."

reply -> :climate-cool: