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I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/ Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
There is a how it works link: http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/ Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
There is a how it works link: http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/ Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
I checked the sources for beef...it's only the amount you eat at home. Doesn't include eating out, which would like double or triple it.
Couldn't find fault with the airline numbers, but four hours a year? One two hour roundtrip flight? Srsly?
If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
My electric bill is HUGE compared to the average American. Do people living in regular houses really have $50/month electric bills?
Hey folks, Jonah here from the Almanac. Although Aditya very kindly published our survey, it's still rough as everyone here has pointed out. We assumed it wasn't going to be seen by too many people at this stage, but of course one should always be careful publishing information to the web, especially about something as contentious as global warming. However, given that it IS now out in the open, I might as well take this opportunity to respond to people's thoughts.
The main thing I would caution is that part of the point of this survey is how inadequate six questions is to cover a persons' footprint (thus that huge other). The main service we want to develop goes into a lot more detail about peoples' consumption, and will track this information automatically.
If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
Clearly, you produce too much body heat. We must eliminate you. As an educational tool, this is flawed. Anyone with curiosity and an attentions span longer than 10 seconds will try the 'all zeros', and the message this sends is that purely by existing , you are screwing up the world. This is not true, as best I know!
We're trying to find better frameworks, and one of the ones we've been considering is not to worry at all about talking about the size of our users' footprint, but rather to talk about the benefits of various types of changes in consumption if they were widely adopted. That way the negative situation presented isn't some confusing, oversized and hypothetical scenario, but simply the one we think is happening; and the benefits of one's changes aren't hypothetical, but potentially part of some larger (if unlikely) movement.
We're looking for the best way of presenting information about this issue and the benefits of actions people can take. If you or anyone reading this have any ideas about you'd want to see someone do this, we'd love to hear them.