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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. Where in the world it is deployed doesn't matter. It would still be US emissions.
  2. You were saying it wasn't an apples to apples comparison. How we correct the two sides of the equation shouldn't really matter.
  3. I'm going to need evidence that the our world in data plots don't include the US military anyway.
  4. The vast majority of global CO2 emissions are coal. I'm not aware of coal power being used much in the military.

In the next year or two China will take second place for total historic CO2 emissions, taking that place over from Europe. It's emissions per capital overtook Europe several years ago and it has 6x the people. If the rest of the world hits zero tomorrow, Chinas emissions are still too high.

https://globalcarbonbudget.org/download/1479/?tmstv=1732802221

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is the important graph from the Carbon budget presentation. The difference between USA and China is about 1.5 Billion tons of CO2.

That news story on the US military cites a report with this graph in it. The total emission of the whole DoD is 60 million tons of CO2.

It doesn't make a dent.