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Dev claim · claim-173 · #84 of 154

“If there were [carbon emissions], we could not see because most carbon is black.”

Claim tags (sorted stems; highlighted when a passage shares them)

  • black
  • carbon
  • carbon
  • could
  • emiss
  • see

Annotators’ label

Refutes Run this claim live

The model’s verdict

The Transformer retrained from the notebook (the 2024 weights were never saved), shown three ways. The first is how the notebook evaluated it.

Notebook protocol

Dev claims predicted in batches of 16, in file order, from the 2024 retrieved evidence, as the notebook does.

Not enough info✗ differs from the label
Supports
1.4%
Refutes
0.2%
Not enough info
97.3%
Disputed
1.0%

One claim at a time

The same model run on a single claim, which is how the Try-it page runs it.

Not enough info✗ differs from the label
Supports
10.0%
Refutes
1.2%
Not enough info
72.9%
Disputed
15.9%

With gold evidence

Fed the human-annotated evidence instead of retrieved passages. This is the 'val accuracy' the training loop reports.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
62.5%
Refutes
29.2%
Not enough info
0.4%
Disputed
7.9%

Retrieved vs gold evidence

Gold passages were picked by the dataset’s annotators. Retrieved passages are what the TF-IDF rule returned from all 1.19M passages. Switch between the submitted 2024 output and the re-runs.

2024 submission

The passages the team actually retrieved and submitted in 2024 (their saved output file). The file records only passage ids, so scores are recomputed with the submission rule.

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Found
0 of 1 gold
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0.00
F
0.00
  1. #1evidence-147748

    The public revenue from a carbon price could be used to subsidize companies that provide such negative emissions.

    • revenu
    • emiss (shared with the claim)
    • price
    • could (shared with the claim)
    • neg
    • subsid
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.820
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.420
    shared
    3
  2. #2evidence-983271

    In New Delhi, India, the supreme court ordered shift to compressed natural gas for all public transport vehicles, including buses, taxis, and rickshaws, resulted in a climate benefit, “largely because of the dramatic reduction of black carbon emissions from the diesel bus engines.” Overall, the fuel switch for the vehicles reduced black carbon emissions enough to produce a 10 percent net reduction in CO-eq., and perhaps as much as 30 percent.

    • reduct
    • vehicl
    • percent
    • emiss (shared with the claim)
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    • black (shared with the claim)
    • taxi
    cos
    0.815
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.415
    shared
    3
  3. #3evidence-195369

    Limiting new black carbon deposits in the Arctic could reduce global warming by 0.2 °C by 2050.

    • warm
    • deposit
    • could (shared with the claim)
    • limit
    • reduc
    • arctic
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    • black (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.679
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.279
    shared
    3
  4. #4evidence-1029561

    This is why I want to see more nuclear power in the UK and elsewhere, in order to avoid more carbon emissions".

    • want
    • emiss (shared with the claim)
    • uk
    • elsewh
    • see (shared with the claim)
    • nuclear
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    • avoid
    cos
    0.672
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.272
    shared
    3
  5. #5evidence-1070890

    Because black carbon remains in the atmosphere only for a few weeks, reducing black carbon emissions may be the fastest means of slowing climate change in the near term.

    • atmosph
    • slow
    • emiss (shared with the claim)
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    • fastest
    • week
    • black (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.665
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.265
    shared
    3
  6. #6evidence-599105

    Carbon is essential to all known living systems, and without it life as we know it could not exist (see alternative biochemistry).

    • know
    • carbon (shared with the claim)
    • essenti
    • exist
    • biochemistri
    • could (shared with the claim)
    • see (shared with the claim)
    • without
    • life
    • altern
    cos
    0.582
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.182
    shared
    3

Gold evidence (1)

  1. evidence-142343

    Global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were equivalent to 49 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (using the most recent global warming potentials over 100 years from the AR5 report).

    • tonn
    • anthropogen
    • equiv
    • billion
    • dioxid
    • global