China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total - EcoWatch
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China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

  • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    English is not my first language either and I type the way I speak. So I might say things wrong but language was never my strong suit. I only commented because I have a friend from mainland China who only speaks around this time.

    I hope we can both agree that using evaluations made by China is not always the best. I could have replaced CO2 with # of immigrants or %breast feeding and we would have the same issues. However, the use of CO2 as a metric for a developing country is specially odd given how difficult it is to track in places like the US for EU. Hence, I say don’t trust it.

    Can we agree there or is this all still baseless conjecture and erroneous conclusions?

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I can certainly agree that there is no evidence to suggest that China is “one of the most polluting countries in the world”. I haven’t seen a shred of evidence to support that claim. It is entirely baseless.

      On the other hand, the claim that China’s per capita pollution is lower than that of most industrialized nations is supported by evidence. It is the best evidence we have too, unless you’ve discovered a better metric in the last few days.

      A claim that imperfect evidence is equivalent to no evidence is baseless and will lead to erroneous conclusions.