I was always taught Cheap energy = Economic growth
A rather alarming pair of graphs. Increased rule of law seems to make countries richer, and richer countries have higher emissions per capita.pic.twitter.com/sQx9LzhCbM
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Whoever taught you that would have found it instructive to compare Saudi Arabia and Japan.
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Correlation
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correlation may not imply causation, but it is correlated with it
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One very encouraging thing is that carbon intensity - emissions per GDP - have been dropping greatly among all major emitters. Here's the top 5:pic.twitter.com/mI14Ar5gmL
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@amcafee GDP and emissions are now decoupled. https://www.amazon.com/More-Less-Surprising-Learned-Resources_and/dp/1982103574 …pic.twitter.com/O6wWPFl2Tp
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India and China are each going to have such a big effect, I wonder if that makes any statistics dominated by these two outliers
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The good news is that this is getting (much) better over time. The link between emissions and growth seems to be decoupling. Paging
@amcafee and his recent... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P5GPMTY/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_Sqb2Db2NF4CYJ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OurWorldInData is the#dataset behind the graph referred to above available from https://github.com/owid/owid-datasets/tree/master/datasets …? Asking because I couldn't find it there.#OpenData - 2 more replies
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