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Yeah, inaccurate and clickbaity headline.

• IanCal 7y ago
  It's the key finding of the study, I don't see how it's clickbait (surely the opposite, it's telling you upfront what the topic and answer is rather than "you won't believe who ..."). Do you have something more substantial than "inaccurate" as a critique of the study?
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  • PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    The clickbait part is saying "the Pentagon" when they mean "the US military." A casual reader may assume the headquarters building alone produces that much gas, which is obviously false. Of course the excuse is that "the Pentagon" is often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense. But that means the leadership specifically. You might say "the Pentagon ordered fifty F-35s," but never "the Pentagon invaded Afghanistan." It's a really awkward phrasing at best, and I can't imagine that it's not deliberately deceptive. Are the facts not shocking enough?
• PhasmaFelis 7y ago
  For later readers, this comment means the original headline: "U.S. Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal, study finds."