Fairly recent EA here (interested for ~2 years, took the Try Giving pledge a year ago, went to one EAGx earlier this year)
FWIW, I took the GWWC assessment to be both low confidence and out of date, but chose to support Cool Earth anyway despite considering it lower impact than eg health or poverty reduction because I wanted to contribute specifically in aid of climate change mitigation.
My decision process was basically to decide that I wanted climate change to be a focus area for some giving, then go and try and find the least worst charity from an EA per... (read more)
Fairly recent EA here (interested for ~2 years, took the Try Giving pledge a year ago, went to one EAGx earlier this year)
FWIW, I took the GWWC assessment to be both low confidence and out of date, but chose to support Cool Earth anyway despite considering it lower impact than eg health or poverty reduction because I wanted to contribute specifically in aid of climate change mitigation.
My decision process was basically to decide that I wanted climate change to be a focus area for some giving, then go and try and find the least worst charity from an EA per... (read more)