Links tagged “co2”
- Due to fracking, ‘U.S. right on target, if not ahead of schedule, to meet its commitments under the Paris Climate Agreements’
Daniel Markind: "Starting from a baseline on 2005 (which was also used by the Paris Agreement), CO2 emissions in the USA are down approximately 12%. ... The overwhelming majority of that decrease has been caused by the change from coal based energy production to natural gas, facilitated greatly by fracking."
"In 2020, American CO2 emissions are likely to drop another 10%. This would put the United States right on target, if not ahead of schedule, to meet American commitments under the Paris Climate Agreements (known as "NDCs," for Nationally Determined Contributions). Specifically, under the Paris Agreements, the United States pledged a reduction in CO2 emissions of 26-28% by 2025 from the 2005 baseline. ...
1. The United States is presently doing better than any other country in the world at reducing CO2 emissions, thanks mainly to the increased use of natural gas.
2. The United States is doing better than any other country in the world which gave a significant NDC for CO2 under the Paris Climate Agreements, and it is doing so without attempting to ban the use of fossil fuels.
3. The argument can be made that by insisting on an "all or nothing" approach and holding up the interstate pipeline buildout, the American environmental community is actually hurting the environment instead of helping it, by delaying the conversion from coal to more efficient and cleaner burning natural gas.
- Another New Study Says Warming & CO2-Induced Greening Leads To COOLING Of Land Surface Temperatures
Since the 1980s, 29% of human CO2 emissions were cancelled out by the CO2-induced greening of the Earth. The post-2000 vegetative greening expansion has been so massive (5.4 million km²) its net areal increase is equivalent to a region the size of the Amazon rainforest.
- Punishing Companies For CO2 Emissions Won’t Affect Temps, Climate
- Meet ‘climate restoration’ – What if net-zero isn’t enough? Inside the push to ‘restore’ the climate – Seek pre-industrial CO2 levels
“The climate today is not safe,” said Gideon Futerman, the 17-year-old founder and president of Worldward, who lives in a suburb north of London. “Millions of people are suffering and millions more will.” By the time net-zero is achieved, he said, the climate will be considerably more dangerous. ...
“Restoration is about removing the CO2, which is causing these problems, and starting to reverse those issues,” said Futerman. ... Climate restoration, as Futerman defines it, has three components: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actively removing carbon from the atmosphere to offset any remaining emissions, and then continuing to draw it down, so that the concentration in the atmosphere begins to decline, “restoring” an earlier version of the climate. In other words, Worldward — a portmanteau of “world” and “forward” or “onward” —wants to get to net-zero, and then keep going. ... The group does not advocate for a specific temperature goal or atmospheric concentration of carbon — Futerman said that’s a societal decision — but roughly, they want society to aim for somewhere close to pre-industrial levels.
- Will Trump’s EPA do anything about CO2 endangerment finding? ‘I don’t think so. That’s a huge issue,’ says EPA chief Andrew Wheeler
EPA chief Andrew Wheeler: "The Obama administration's EPA almost solely focused on climate change. And it's important, we've done enough we've done four regulations to address climate change. We've actually enacted more than any other administration ever. Our CAFE standard addresses climate change."
- Watch: Climatologist explains why EPA Endangerment Finding on CO2 should be vacated
- Former WMO Official: CO2 ‘Insignificant For Balance Of Energy’, It is ‘Completely Unnecessary’ To Reduce CO2
- In Geological Terms, Today’s Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Are Still Uncomfortably Low
- Physicists’ study: CO2 & water vapor are ‘saturated’ – Adding more CO2 or water molecules will bring modest warming that will benefit plant
- African Lives Matter Too: New study shows how American clean coal technology can increase access to electricity and cut deaths from indoor air pollution
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30 studies since March 2020 finding COVID lockdowns had little or no efficacy
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Claim: ‘COVID-19 has shown what happens when we destroy nature’ – ‘Transformative change is urgently needed’ to avoid new pandemics
Never let a crisis go to waste:
WWF International: "Transformative change is urgently needed in our productive sectors, including our food systems, forestry, fisheries, infrastructure and extractives, and in the finance sector. These transformations need to happen fast if we are to limit risks of higher restoration costs and irreversible damage, including new pandemics and species extinction. We must transform our food systems so that enough healthy and nutritious food is produced for all, within planetary boundaries."
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UN expects average person in 2100 to be 450% richer. ‘Climate change’ will theoretically reduce that to 434% richer
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Another New Study Says Warming & CO2-Induced Greening Leads To COOLING Of Land Surface Temperatures
Since the 1980s, 29% of human CO2 emissions were cancelled out by the CO2-induced greening of the Earth. The post-2000 vegetative greening expansion has been so massive (5.4 million km²) its net areal increase is equivalent to a region the size of the Amazon rainforest.
