The Washington Post’s editors insist on picturing — and now describing –CO2 as something other than what it is — invisible.
Accompanying today’s WaPo article on global CO2 emissions increasing:
The print edition was not much better, once again pretending that billowing water droplets/vapor are CO2 emissions and calling it “waste gas”:
I agree. As far as I know, they don’t use scrubbers on coal SMOKEstacks in China. These pictures could easily be real-smoke [tm] not water vapor. And while we’re at it, there is CO2 coming out of those stacks, even if you can’t see it.
H’m. This is China; that could be smoke. Smoke is real pollution and a proxy for CO2, which doesn’t need a proxy because it’s meaningless in our concerns about climate or pollution.