This op-ed[1][2] says:
> For a few years, I’ve startled people by pointing out that over half of all of the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels that have ever been produced in the history of humanity have been produced in the past 30 years — since Al Gore published his first book on warming; since the U.N. established its climate-change body, the I.P.C.C.; since the premiere of “Friends.”
Which is fucking shocking. Later on he says "At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the global promise was to avoid “dangerous” warming.", if I were the editor I'd point out that's 30 years ago and that he should add something like "the cutoff-year after which we've emitted in 30 years the same amount of fossil fuel emissions of the last several millennia until that point".
Obviously this is "citation needed" territory, but I'm relying on the reputation of NYT to have hired a researcher that backs up what he's written with hard data.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/opinion/india-heat-wave-p... [2] https://archive.ph/GTtXP