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Which number is reality? How can we know what is the true number. We are only confident to a _degree_. I get that there is an obvious incentive for o&g to bias
by whall6 5y ago
Which number is reality? How can we know what is the true number. We are only confident to a _degree_.
I get that there is an obvious incentive for o&g to bias downward, but we shouldn’t lead ourselves astray thinking that an outside audit is 100% accurate. It’s useful but we shouldn’t hang our hats on it.
Also, I get this is tangential to the true point, but it just bothers me when numbers derived from estimation are labeled as “reality”.
- nend 5y agoI mean, I get your point. The underlying data and studies should be analyzed and confirmed. But as the article mentions this is not the only study showing an under reporting of emissions, and as you said oil companies have obvious incentives to under report. So the question is now "how much is being under reported", but not "are oil companies under reporting". >Which number is reality? Not the one the oil companies are telling us, which should be alarming.