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
Is there a good cheat sheet with these kinds of numbers online anywhere?
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Replying to @avibryant
Good question. Not sure. IIRC the first few chapters of Robert Henson's "Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change" provided a lot of the basics. Not sure how systematic it was.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @avibryant
It's pretty easy to get most of these numbers just by googling and/or Wikipedia. I compiled lots of them on the Azimuth Wiki, but I ran out of energy before it had everything I wanted. (1/2)
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Replying to @johncarlosbaez @avibryant
I'm guessing (?) Avi wants to know: what numbers and models are particularly good numbers and models to know? IIRC Henson's book does a reasonable job of answering that for readers who are pretty serious about wanting to dig into climate, but not necessarily turn pro :-)
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Wish I had a better reference! The IPCC report is good, but a bit much. I find myself going down rabbitholes that make Wikipedia look like a meditation session.
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