[gorwell]

Those are the numbers that matter. Percentages are how you lie with statistics.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

[nerpderp82]

There is a great book on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

But you have to know enough statistics to be sneaky with it.

[lotsofpulp]

Globally, the total matters. By country, the per capita matters.

[_aavaa_]

Disagree. What matters is the absolute number, and the direction that number is going in.

[zzzoom]

What matters is that the US' number keeps growing.

[gorwell]

It hasn't. It's been down since 2007 despite increased population.

[triceratops]

The article is literally about how it grew this year.