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Serious question: how reliable are the figures from China? How can we trust they aren't fudging the numbers, either at the local level or the national level?
by enraged_camel 9y ago
Serious question: how reliable are the figures from China? How can we trust they aren't fudging the numbers, either at the local level or the national level?
- askmike 9y agoWhat is there to gain from fudging these numbers?
- Rescis 9y agoContinued economic growth at the increased rates that non-renewable energy sources provide, without the external disapproval/sanctions that come with them.
- hwillis 9y agoIts based on energy use etc and I believe satellite spectrometetry, so there are massive margins of error but the general trends are pretty hard to hide.