michael_nielsen

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?

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.

What is the optimum long-term global mean temperature, compared with today's?

Fun question. Though it's much more subjective than most of mine, which are questions of fact (or are meant to imply such - e.g., the question about lifetime of the CO2 in the atmosphere is a question absent human intervention. But, of course, we may intervene.)