The whole article is quite funny, especially the lists of most used tankie words, or the branding of foreignpolicy as a left-wing news source.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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    If I can help let me know, I am less than 4 pages in and this is already the worst paper I have ever read, somehow doing worse than the paper I read saying that renewables will never succeed because a solar field takes up more space than a coal powered power plant.

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      It’s a grift on supposed support for “data-driven” analyses. It’s just a specultive opinion piece. Its data handling and analysis is anything but academic.

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        “there are well documented limitations to our tools and methodology but as we can support the conclusions we wanted to make, we’re going to trust the data anyway”