Just wondering, before the pandemic broke, was each countries' accounting of their co2 emissions in dispute? In other words, if you summed up every country's estimate and compared it to actual global co2 levels, was there a huge mismatch? I'm hesitant to take the tweet at face value, judging by the other posts the twitter user made.
yeah the author isn't very credible but the data is sourced and the point seems to stand as far as I can tell. The sources do not seem to be contested as far as I can tell.
>but the data is sourced and the point seems to stand as far as I can tell.
Doesn't that describe most pseudoscience/conspiracy posts though? They rarely make up data outright, but instead they cherrypick data that fits their theory. This is why I asked if this theory was already a thing before the pandemic. If it's really the case that China (or any other major emitter) is underreporting their emissions, you'd think that someone at a reputable institution would have raised the alarm about the inconsistency in the past two decades. The lack of this is a reason to doubt the validity of this, at least to a casual observer.
With regards to actual explanations, the twitter thread provides many:
conspiracy theory? As I understand it this is merely measuring data and comparing it to previous measurements. Either the data is wrong or it isn't - there's no need to complicate things with conspiracy theories or anything else
