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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A followup question: what's the best way to show/encode this kind of information? I suspect numbers in a block of text don't build intuition without a lot of effort. Why aren't there more google sheets of semi-permanent facts with graphs out there?
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