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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Why should someone who lives in China have an obligation to produce less CO2 than an American because they live in a country with more people? You also want *historical* CO2 production to date, as the CO2 the US has been pumping out for decades is still in the atmosphere.
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Replying to @octonion
I didn't make any assertion about whether someone in China has that obligation. Nor did I say that you don't want historical CO2 production.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
My apologies if I misunderstood the point you were making.
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My point was ppl writing authoritatively about something or giving policy advice should know basic numbers & models. Things like /capita CO2, carbon intensity, etc shld also be on any reasonable list of climate literacy for supposed "experts", along with much other data & models
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