I'm not wild about gotcha journalism. But geez I'd love to ask some of the people writing about climate some basic questions. What are total CO2 emissions per year? What percentage is due to the US? To China? To coal? To power generation?
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How does the impact of methane compare to CO2? How long does CO2 last in the atmosphere (& how do we know)? Etc. When reading I often have the sneaking suspicion that the person writing has no quantitative understanding at all of climate.
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Good intentions + no detailed quantitative understanding is simply a recipe for bad outcomes, in my opinion.
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A bit dated, but is this the approach you’re looking for: http://www.withouthotair.com/c2/page_22.shtml …
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Yes, it's one of my favourite books. There's tonnes of material like this - great books, good papers etc. And enormous numbers of people who know a huge amount, certainly far more than I done. But then I see policy advice / editorials from people who don't seem to know anything.
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