• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Just FYI, we don’t exactly know how much CO2 we’ve released, how many particles are in the atmosphere, how much water is in the ocean, etc. We use math and statistics to create estimates. They’ll have some amount of error, but it is not strange. In fact, acting like someone does know the quantity exactly would make me a lot more skeptical.

    Also, don’t say “look at this thing…” and then when that exact thing proves you incorrect you just move the goal posts. That’s called a bad faith argument. Either you had faith in the USCG report or you didn’t. If you didn’t, don’t use it in your argument. If you did, you must accept what it says.

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      11 months ago

      That’s just it, the USCG DIDN’T say the leak was a million gallons. They said it could be that much.

      They know there was a leak and they know roughly how much oil the pipeline holds.

      That’s it. That is all they said. The story headline said that the USCG said that much DID leak when they very specifically didn’t say that.

      Where exactly did I move the goal posts? What was my bad faith argument?