{"id":8437,"date":"2023-11-12T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2023-11-12T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T08:53:59","slug":"how-to-understand-the-inscrutable-numbers-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/12\/how-to-understand-the-inscrutable-numbers-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How to understand the inscrutable numbers of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate people\u2014researchers, ESG stewards, philanthropists\u2014can forget, under the pressure of facts, how alien statistics might feel to those of us new to Climate World. They\u2019ll come to a conference and put \u201c419.68\u201d on the screen. Everyone sighs and nods. They speak in fractions or trillions of dollars or trees, depending on the context. These numbers are entire careers, tenures, grants awarded or not. But if you don\u2019t live in Climate World, they don\u2019t resonate quite the same way. You have to learn to appreciate them. Of course, most of the time what\u2019s on display is worse than the numbers; it\u2019s about probabilities. I\u2019ve learned to think of all bell curves as roller coasters\u2014a big ladder on the left, starting at the 5th percentile, the bottom tail. You climb up the middle, hang around a bit, and enjoy the view. Then you go down a steep, scary slide to the right, down to the 95th percentile, the upper tail. (<em>Paul Ford<\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate people\u2014researchers, ESG stewards, philanthropists\u2014can forget, under the pressure of the facts, how alien statistics might feel to those of us new to Climate World. They come to a conference and put \u201c419.68\u201d on the screen. Everyone sighs and nods. They talk in fractions or trillions of dollars or trees, depending on [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}