{"id":17508,"date":"2024-11-22T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:05:17","slug":"climate-how-to-mislead-with-a-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/11\/22\/climate-how-to-mislead-with-a-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate: How to mislead with a chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056-481x270.jpg 481w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2f2cdb5-b05f-4136-a271-fb62cd1d5c51_1882x1056.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But look carefully &#8211; all of the emission expansion are in China and India &#8211; the other countries have all seen a decrease in carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details matter, but most people are not detail oriented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions. But they are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cherry-picking","category-climate-communications","category-facts","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}