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Clever accounting trick? AFAIK noone has strict enough rules to make people bother with clever accounting tricks. I think it's more likely to mean that ① advan
by Arnt 3y ago
Clever accounting trick? AFAIK noone has strict enough rules to make people bother with clever accounting tricks.
I think it's more likely to mean that ① advanced economies have advanced further in the transition, ② advanced economies are also economies with few children and global per-capita emissions peaked about a decade ago, or ③ both.
- perrygeo 3y agoIn case there is a language barrier or something going on... by "clever accounting trick" I meant that the analyst in question committed a well-known scientific fallacy. Yet the author published it anyway because it proved favorable to their thesis. Whereas publishing the scientifically-valid statement would have undermined it. You're right though, let's not call it a clever accounting trick. That's confusing. Let's call it what it is - journalistic misconduct and scientific fraud.
- Arnt 3y agoYou really want someone to be Bad and Guilty and Nefarious, don't you?
- perrygeo 3y agoNo. I want people to do good science and to stop doing bad science. Especially when it comes to climate change, we have a moral obligation to root out bad ideas and invalid methods. I'm happy to have a conversation about the invalidity of the national GDP:emissions ratio method. That's the topic of this thread.