‘The deeper meaning buried in the data on carbon emissions: A Data Blog’ – The Meta-Blog, No.20
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-03-23

Ramblinactivist 2022/10, 23rd March 2022.

In this blog post, looking at the ‘dangerous exponentials’ inside the data on carbon emissions,  I explain how a simple graph can show far more than just the raw numbers for carbon emissions – and what this tells us about why changing that trend is so hard.

For example, since 1750, half of all the carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels use has taken place since 1992, when the world agreed a treaty that pledged action to curb emissions.

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00:00 Opening titles
00:24 Introduction
01:24 A brief advert for this channel
01:54 ‘To begin, take some data...’
04:02 Data (ideally) represents reality
05:28 Reality is, ‘complicated’
07:03 The unwelcome message
08:43 The ‘affluent elephant in the room’
09:57 Conclusion
11:14 Closing credits

#climatechange #fossilfuels #analysis