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[inbox] Add screenshots to pages using screenshotit.app #38

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@rufuspollock

Most pages here are wall-to-wall text. A single image near the top would give each one a visual anchor and make the site much less of a slab. screenshotit.app is the obvious tool for capturing the source a page is about.

Starting point

ipcc-special-report-1.5-degrees-2018 — capture the report's home page. Checked 2026-08-08: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ is still live and returns 200, so the capture is straightforward.

Pages with no image at all

Page Screenshot candidate
carbon-pricing a carbon price tracker — e.g. World Bank Carbon Pricing Dashboard
carbon-capture the DAC mobilization report cited in the text
carbon-footprint-calculators the calculators themselves — this page is about web pages, so it is the strongest case
without-hot-air withouthotair.org, the site the project produced
meta-vs-specific-solutions-debates Project Drawdown's solutions list, which the note argues with
techno-solutionism-and-mitigation the DAC report summary it quotes

Worth deciding first

  • Captures date. A screenshot of a live page is a snapshot of a moving target. Worth stamping each with the capture date in the caption, the way the HadCRUT chart on the home page credits its source and retrieval date.
  • Where they live. assets/, kebab-cased, no LFS — see the conventions in CLAUDE.md. scripts/verify.sh will fail the build if a referenced image is missing, so they have to be committed, not hotlinked.
  • Whether hotlinking is better for some. A live embed stays current but can rot or change under you; a capture is stable but ages. Probably capture for anything cited as evidence, hotlink for nothing.

Aside from the site refactor epic (#37).

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