Another headline for this article was AI can't do basic math.
After reading articles & viewing podcasts, it's equally apparent that the science of climate change is not settled...& I'm uncertain most of the claimed 97% consensus can do the math.
Whether it's the ECS equations or the cost & corresponding efficiency of all-renewable energy powering world economies, math still applies.
If China's economy relies on exports & many of those involve renewables & EVs coming to the West, the math says we only help THEM by buying from them & increasing our trade
deficit.
If tariffs are so bad, why are cheap-labor and even the EU so reliant on them?? I saw a map showing which states are most reliant on Chinese exports. California is nearly the highest, yet flyover country & even the U.S. East Coast have far less reliance.
Even Nancy Pelosi in 1996 and Bernie Sanders more recently decried sending our manufacturing overseas and the one-sided tariffs of China. That's simple math. Crappy non-manufacturing jobs do not make a strong middle class.