Links tagged “emissions”

Businesses and governments will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need. The Iron Law matters because the electricity sector is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide emissions. And politicians from  China to the Czech Republic are going to do everything they can, including “burning anything” they can find, to avoid blackouts.

"Renewable energy cannot, will not, be able to meet soaring global energy demand."

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows.

In 2021, worldwide emissions from making cement for buildings, roads and other infrastructure hit nearly 2.9 billion tons (2.6 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide, which is more than 7% of the global carbon emissions, according to emissions scientist Robbie Andrew of Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research and the Global Carbon Project.

Climate Depot's Marc Morano: "The New York Times seems bent on updating Gordon Gekko's phrase from the 1987 film Wall Street: Chaos, for lack of a better word, is GOOD. Climate activists in academia, the Biden admin. and the media seem to think the more humans suffer, the more the planet will benefit. This is more evidence that economic calamity, debt, inflation, supply chain issues, and skyrocketing meat and energy costs are not the unintended consequences of the climate agenda, but the INTENDED consequences. Chaos conditions the public to accept more centralized control of their lives. Vladimir Lenin reportedly once said, 'worse is better' or 'the worse, the better' to cheer on chaos and the destruction of the existing order to impose his ideology."

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Culture & lifestyle journalist Annaliese Griffin writing in the New York Times on June 2, 2022: "Inflation has the potential to drive welcome change for the planet if Americans think differently about the way they eat...We could adjust what we eat to save both our pocketbooks and our planet." 

"Climate change has motivated some to eat less resource-intensive meat and more vegetables, grains and legumes, but this movement has not reached the scale necessary to bring needed change — yet...A 2021 study in Nature found that animal products produce greenhouse gases at twice the rate of foods from plants. We should be paying attention to every ton of carbon dioxide that goes into the atmosphere — the same way shoppers are watching the cost of every addition to their grocery carts." ... 

"Inflation resulting from the cost of fuel and feed, coupled with supply chain slowdowns, may make meat substitutes more affordable relative to traditional, factory-farmed meats. ... Historically, cost has been a powerful force that has changed Americans’ diets."