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Only 12% of the emissions since 1750 were man made, so there's not really any significant difference we can make.

https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Fulltext/2022/02000/...

Here's the comment describing the previously-linked paper's errors, and a call for its retraction: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/651497915/Comment_...

[edit] Corrected because, well, accuracy matters!

Not technically a paper, it's a comment. That doesn't detract from the comments point or validity.

Wow, I've not heard about this paper. I'm surprised it hasn't made more news.

Because it was ripped apart fairly quickly.

I would have thought that would have made some noise. I'm not saying I think it's correct. I'm saying it's shocking and I'd have thought would have at least stirred up some publicity.

There's no publicity needed to contradict a paper which wasn't publicized in the first place.

None needed, correct. But it's common for shocking things to generate publicity.

No, it's common for publicized things to be shocking. Yours is a classic error in Bayesian reasoning.

I bet you're fun at parties.

Love how it always ends with an insult with you people.

I'm not sure who the people group is that you're assigning to me. But if your were wondering why I reacted this way. I felt that you were needling me. "I bet you're fun at parties" is a way of saying you're being too pedantic.

It wasn't meant to hurt your feelings up it's a way of pushing back. Yes your correct but did you're not being very gracious about it.

It's generally easier in these situations if the person who is wrong doesn't continue reaching for ways to feel right by imposing some self-serving notion of "grace".

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