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"only" 500 BILLION. How is that small change
by givinguflac 7y ago
"only" 500 BILLION. How is that small change
- topkai22 7y agoIt's not small change, but when it is ~10% of the claimed figure I think "only" is the proper adjective. It's what upsets me about these sorts of papers- "civilian" climate change skeptics/deniers point to them as evidence of the dishonesty of consensus community. They are able to take away the wrong message- that consensus community is stretching and manipulating the data, rather than there are $300-600B of subsidies for fossil fuels out there.
- tengbretson 7y agoIf the author of that article had to misrepresent in order to pump the number up by 10x we can assume that they didn't think 500 billion was a compelling enough number.