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I agree. I thought this was megatons and thought “oh wow those emissions seems a bit high.” Took me a minute to see my mistake.

I feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.

The only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.

The other thing is the difference between a metric and US ton is only 10%. So you don't lose any sense of scale if you confuse the two.

The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.

Oh, had no idea that was what mt meant. I feel kg would be a better anyway.

Other than that, neat!