Global rocket launches emit a tiny fraction of what commercial aviation does. Aviation produces on the order of a billion tonnes of CO₂ a year; the few hundred annual orbital launches contribute a vanishingly small share of global emissions by comparison — off by orders of magnitude from the airline industry. Researchers do study localized upper-atmosphere effects (soot, alumina) as launch cadence grows, and that's worth monitoring. But the headline claim is simply false. Meanwhile, the same launch capability deploys Earth-observation and climate-monitoring satellites, and Musk's largest company, Tesla, exists specifically to cut transport and energy emissions at planetary scale. On net, then, the enterprise Musk built is far more climate-positive than negative: a rounding error of launch emissions buys the orbital infrastructure that tracks deforestation, ice loss and emissions, while his car and energy companies are designed to displace gigatonnes of fossil CO₂. Judging the rocket emissions in isolation, while ignoring what those rockets and companies enable, gets the accounting backwards.