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Now Here's Some Good News: Global Warming Emissions Could Actually Be in Decline
Vice News ^ | December 8, 2015 18:20 UTC | Eva Hershaw

Posted on 12/09/2015 12:39:25 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists

As world leaders in Paris scramble to reach a climate agreement aimed to mitigate the consequences of untamed greenhouse gas emissions, they have been dealt a rare dose of good news.

Scientists writing in the journal Nature Climate Change estimate that for the first time in the last 15 years, global carbon dioxide emissions have flatlined, and possibly even declined.

"It is difficult to overstate the significance of this development," said Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. "What it shows is that we are indeed now turning the corner in transition from a fossil fuel to renewable-driven global economy."

The study, which was the tenth of its kind published by this team of researchers, showed that CO2 emissions from the consumption of fossil fuel and cement production grew by a mere 0.6 percent in 2014, compared with 2.4 percent annual growth for the decade before.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: algore; c02; c02emissions; carbonemissions; china; climatechange; climatechangescam; climateconference; fossilfuels; france; globalwarming; globalwarmingscam; paris; pennstate; psu; ukmetoffice
HARK!

C02 appears to be flat lining or going down. And it's all because of the "wonderful" job the UN is doing with reducing their emissions!

Or maybe not? Is this good news or bad news? We really going up or down? Too high or too low? I'm so confused.

1 posted on 12/09/2015 12:39:25 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Nope. The climate-alarmists have simply figured out a new trick: when cold Winters are approaching, claim that CO2 is low.

When hot Summers are here, claim that CO2 is high.

This way, they can “show” that CO2 controls the temp. They can’t go wrong!


2 posted on 12/09/2015 12:41:24 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Southack

Does this mean all the scientists in the southern hemisphere will claim CO2 is low in the winter and high in the summer?


3 posted on 12/09/2015 12:43:25 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists
I certainly hope not, I'm looking forward to alligators attacking New York City.

They've been stuck in the sewer far too long.

4 posted on 12/09/2015 12:45:19 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

CO2 concentration in the air tends to follow the temperature. If there is less CO2 being emitted, I wonder if the average global temperature is actually dropping. It is a long-term cause and effect cycle, though. CO2 levels typically lag temperature by decades, according to the historical record.


5 posted on 12/09/2015 12:46:51 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Bad economy is good for the environment.
That's where I think they are going with this.
True or false doesn't matter, it's how they want you to think.

6 posted on 12/09/2015 12:47:30 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

But what about the killer bees? Won’t they attack before the gators do?

Then again NYC will be underwater, so they’ll probably have to go after some unsuspecting canucks.


7 posted on 12/09/2015 12:47:50 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Bad news for plant life around the world.


8 posted on 12/09/2015 12:48:29 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Nobody has a job!

9 posted on 12/09/2015 12:57:28 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The more planet-friendly we are, the more the planet will be friendly in return! See how that works? It’s perfect! /s


10 posted on 12/09/2015 1:06:30 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The only ‘global warming emissions’ which are hazardous to society are shot from the sphincters of an endless - and endlessly tedious - set of well-connected and profligate corrupt politicians and the dishonest, but certaily well-paid, scientists on their payrolls.


11 posted on 12/09/2015 1:35:16 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Southack
Dagnabbit! We're having one of the warmest winters I can remember, here, and I'm loving it! Out in my shirt sleeves yesterday, high temps in the 40s, granddaughter (23 yrs old) running around in flip-flops..."But it feels like summer, Papa!"

Oh well, break's over. Those dorks will have us shoveling snow in August again.

12 posted on 12/09/2015 1:58:19 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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13 posted on 12/09/2015 2:01:45 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Up Yours Marxists

It is all up to Sun.

But the pat your own back line starts here.


14 posted on 12/09/2015 3:30:06 AM PST by hadaclueonce (I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

As “Deep Throat” said, “follow the money”. That should clear things up. There are a lot of dull witted pseudo scientists who make a very good living promoting climate change.


15 posted on 12/09/2015 3:42:22 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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quote “It is difficult to overstate the significance of this development,” said Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. “What it shows is that we are indeed now turning the corner in transition from a fossil fuel to renewable-driven global econom”

um..

NO!

what is shows is that WE had NOTHING to do with it and that carbon dioxide is not a leading indicator of warming but a trailing one. This is shown in ALL the historical temperature charts.

Warming stopped (by natural causes) nearly 20 years ago, now the carbon dioxcide is going down AS EXPECTED by anyone with a brain.

One thing you can be 100% sure of, humans haven’t started producing less CO2 than before!!!!


16 posted on 12/09/2015 5:33:24 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Just adding another “floating” variable to add in for the purpose of obfuscation of the Truth...


17 posted on 12/09/2015 5:45:52 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Michael Mann, or as he will eventually be known, “Federal Prisoner number 20391748.”


18 posted on 12/09/2015 5:56:16 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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