@sherbang@chaos.social @kathhayhoe@fediscience.org So I'm to weight a single year over the clear trend of unabated rise in emissions? Every other nation shows the same pattern of rise and decline over the last decades except China. The scale to which China has spiked their emissions means that even if they have started declining the damage is still catastrophic and will take decades to stop. There's a reason China left the Paris accords, they decided they were entitled to an extra 40 years of emissions in their own goals