(Bloomberg) -- Climate people — researchers, ESG administrators, philanthropic organizations — can forget, under the pressure of fact, just how alien statistics can feel to those of us new to Climate World. They come to the conference and put a “ 419.68” on the screen. Everyone sighs and nods. They speak in fractions or, alternately, trillions — of dollars or trees, depending on the context. These numbers are whole careers, tenure, grants proffered or not.