A Northern Arizona University professor and his team are questioning the data coming from Climate TRACE, a consortium that tracks greenhouse gas emissions from various sources.
According to Climate TRACE, it uses technologies like artificial intelligence to collect information on global emissions.
NAU professor Kevin Gurney, of the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, released a study showing discrepancies between the results of Climate TRACE and another database.
Gurney says those involved with Climate TRACE mostly used a method other than artificial intelligence to obtain information on greenhouse gas emissions.
“Well, we found that though they had reported to use artificial intelligence techniques in developing their estimates of power plant CO2 emissions, most of the estimates did not use artificial intelligence techniques but used a rather simple forward calculation," he said.
Gurney says a comparison involving another database showed discrepancies of the information from Climate TRACE.
“I think the goals of this study were to just illuminate what was going on with the Climate TRACE estimates to be, you know, hopefully try to point to, you know, ways that we can improve the approaches," he said.
KJZZ News reached out to Climate TRACE for comment but did not get a response.
