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by tlogan 7mo ago
And? Do you agree with the point or the idea the poster said? Or not? I remember that in the early days of HN there were people who would downvote comments just because they had grammar mistakes, without even trying to understand the idea
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by tlogan 7mo ago
I am here to express my ideas and opinions. They might not always be popular, but they are my opinions (that is reason that I have 3x less karma than you but I was here 11 years longer). And some people will debate my opinions and try to co
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by tlogan 7mo ago
Look your comment: a lot of fluff and nice sentence construction. But I have no idea what you are trying to say (missing forest from the trees? Practice and context?). But it will be upvoted because it has nice English. Anyway, AI is a futu
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by tlogan 7mo ago
You are missing the point here. It is not about whether the comment was written by AI, a native English speaker, English major, or ESL. What matters is an idea or an opinion. That is all what matters.
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by tlogan 7mo ago
The only data I trust are from IEA. And the data they are publishing are not encouraging for the future of the world.
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by tlogan 7mo ago
But we are missing the point here. It is not about whether the comment was written by AI, a native English speaker, English major, or ESL. What matters is an idea or an opinion. That is all what matters. This is similar to when people check
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by tlogan 7mo ago
True, but the BlueSky audience is not really into following professional sports. I believe there was statistics (or just rumor) showing that conservative-leaning people are about 50% more likely to follow professional sports than liberal-le
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by tlogan 7mo ago
I would rather wait for official stats before claiming victory. I think there will be a little upward adjustment from “likely” numbers because of this AI thingy. https://www.iea.org/countries/china/emissions
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by tlogan 7mo ago
The stats for 2025 are yet official. The quote from your link: > China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole So, increase of 4.7% and then
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by tlogan 7mo ago
The quote from your link: > China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole So, increase of 4.7% and then (likely) decrease of 0.3% is a great
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by tlogan 7mo ago
This is a CCP propaganda article. The IEA have not yet released 2024 estimates.
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by tlogan 7mo ago
Because of this: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6079807/v1 Global warming is accelerating, yet we as a human race are doing very little to prevent it. Instead, we keep arguing about how Western countrie
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China's CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023 (2023)(carbonbrief.org)
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by tlogan 7mo ago
Sadly, it does not come from other states. It comes from other countries which, amazingly, tend to have much less strict environmental regulations. Yes, California is a little cleaner because we have fewer refineries and gas is more expensi
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The IEA says China’s CO₂ emissions rose by 565 Mt in 2023 to 12.6 Gt, which it states was a 4.7% increase from 2022. So any emission reduction done by developed countries is offset by China.
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They are doing so good that they increased their emission by 4.7% from 2022 to 2023. /s
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by tlogan 7mo ago
The latest major IEA estimate says China’s CO₂ emissions reached 12.6 Gt in 2023, up 4.7% from 2022. On the other hand U.S. CO₂ emissions decreased slightly between 2022 and 2023. About 2–3% (from 4.79 to 4.68 Gt) I just do not understand h
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by tlogan 7mo ago
China CO2 emission increased a lot over the last 20 years and it is growing every years. Not decreasing but increasing. The IEA estimate says China’s CO₂ emissions reached 12.6 Gt in 2023, up 4.7% from 2022. On the other hand U.S. CO₂ emiss
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by tlogan 7mo ago
So we do not need to worry. China and India will cut their emission a lot and we US just need to cut a little. Problem solved. /s From 2022 to 2023 (lates report), China increased their emission from 11.9 Gt to 12.6 Gt. The US decreas
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The entire west world contributes 28.8%. US is about 11%. [1] [1] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/co2-em...
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Using the IEA’s 2024 energy-related CO₂ data, advanced economies emitted 10.9 billion tonnes out of a global 37.8 billion tonnes in 2024, which is about 28.8% of the world total. So if developed countries completely eliminate all pollution
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If the United States stopped polluting 100%, global pollution would decrease by only about 10%. Probably even less, because much of that pollution would simply be exported through outsourcing. So what happens next?
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China creates about 30–35% of global emissions. India about 8% but it is climbing fast. What rich countries do is they just export their factories to other countries and say: look we do not pollute.
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The sad reality is that much of the climate work done in the West does not matter because China, India, and the rest of the world are not involved.
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Trump Says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Dead(bbc.com)
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I wonder why that is. We saw significant success with Germany, Japan, South Korea, and other countries in the past. But more recently, similar efforts seem to have ended in failure.
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What do you mean by “toothless”? I was thinking more along the lines of Japan or South Korea. Militarily restrained, but prosperous and strong. I understand that recent military actions have often made things worse, not better. I am just tr
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by tlogan 7mo ago
Lebanon is democracy. It is true that system is sectarian (power-sharing among religious groups) but still a democracy.
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I hope this war will be short. And that the result will be Iran becoming a democracy that fully joins the global community. The Iranian people (Persians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, and others), deserve better. It would benefit the entire world t
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This basically means that the government is already using OpenAI, Gemini, and other AI systems for large scale surveillance. They just wanted to add Anthropic to the list, and Anthropic said no. The most import point of this story is that t

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