Climate change models mis-estimated vehicle emissions for years, and scientists now know why

Climate change models mis-estimated vehicle emissions for years, and scientists now know why

A viral TikTok is drawing attention to a messy but important reality of climate science: Sometimes the tools used to estimate emissions need to be corrected. What's happening? In this case, the issue is not that global warming somehow disappeared. Instead, one high-profile tracking model appears to have missed local vehicle-pollution numbers by a wide margin. According to @mrearthguy on TikTok, Climate Trace is an AI-assisted emissions platform …