To suggest that we can measure carbon dioxide reservoirs or carbon dioxide flows with the accuracy required of these percentages, an accuracy required if we are to infer our efforts at carbon dioxide abatement are a success, is another sort of pollution: smoke and mirrors.
Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.