Posted on 02/13/2020 2:12:34 PM PST by navysealdad
Despite being the scourge of the globalist community for daring to leave the Paris Climate Accord, the U.S. appears to be leading the way in reducing its "carbon footprint." According to a report released on Tuesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), "The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis."
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
ohmygodwe’reallgonnadieanyway !
Have they revived Gretta yet?
How. Dare. You.
I really doubt the “science” behind this. We haven’t done sh**.
Damn Democrats, what are going to complain about now?
how many years in a row is that?
This has to do with one thing. Coal electric plants are being replaced by gas electric plants. Nothing else makes a dent. The reality is that gas allows an electricity power station to be turned up and down as needed. Coal powered plants must run at full power. This is true of all other electric fuels. But gas alone allows the producer to throttle the production of electricity to the need. And because gas is often flared when it is found in conjunction with oil. The gas is not added CO2 its actually just CO2 that is used for electricity when before it was just wasted.
I believe it’s down to conversion from coal to natural gas mostly.
Whole lotta fracking going on...
Why should we take credit for a CO2 reduction that is not needed? Prosperous Americans don’t need weak conservatives arguing, “Look — their CO2 numbers are worse than ours.”
Also, natural gas don’t send out massive amounts of oxides of nitrogen and xulfur, particulates and heavy metals like burning coal does. That means no more “acid rain” issues downwind of the power plant.
Yet the rest of the world is going to lecture us about CO2.
Although I still think it is one of the biggest scams ever. Find it funny that we do more than all the others PRETENDING to be more concerned.
So when the next extreme climate cold period hits (think Maunder Minimum) for 50 or so years will the rest of the world that is shivering and starving blame Trump and the USA?
So when the next extreme climate cold period hits (think Maunder Minimum) for 50 or so years will the rest of the world that is shivering and starving blame Trump and the USA?
HOW DARE YOU!
What is it now, like 11 years and a month or 2?
For those that don’t read the article, here is the source with charts:
https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019
Sure we have. We've been replacing coal-fired plants with natural-gas fired plants at a high rate. MASSIVE reductions in CO2 result. All thanks to directional drilling and fracking making the US the number-one producer of natural gas in the world.
Remember, we have less than 11 years to pass a tax so that rich Wall Street Bankers can make millions of dollars off of carbon emission credits or the World is going to end!
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