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Re:Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuel... by briantakita on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:11PM (#25129077)
How do you know China's or the USA's CO2 emissions? Do you have both countries placed into a container with tools to measure the aggregate CO2 output?

Science is based on empirical observation. The map is not the territory & models are often wrong. We don't even know how often the models are wrong.

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Re:Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuel... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:17PM (#25129180)
I am trusting the climate scientists who produced this data because they are the people who've spent their schooling and careers studying this sort of thing and their work has been vetted by the scientific community.

If you have a better standard of judgement then by all means present contradictory data.

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