[sonofgod]

Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t".

Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.

[mveety]

I agree. I thought this was megatons and thought “oh wow those emissions seems a bit high.” Took me a minute to see my mistake.

[yellowapple]

I feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.

[navane]

The only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.

[Gibbon1]

The other thing is the difference between a metric and US ton is only 10%. So you don't lose any sense of scale if you confuse the two.

[souprock]

The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.

[tjoff]

Oh, had no idea that was what mt meant. I feel kg would be a better anyway.

Other than that, neat!