Norway's emissions up 80%

Aftenposten (Norway) ^ | 12/17/07 | Nina Berglund

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Via the indispensible Hot Air

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The signatories to Kyoto act as if signing the paper is all that is required of them. They have gone about their merry way, with only the thinnest veneer of window-dressing efforts.

Meanwhile, the excoriate the United States...

[Brad from Tennessee]

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Declined 1.5 Percent in 2006

Total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) in 2006, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 2005 level according to Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2006, a report released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Since 1990, U.S. GHG emissions have grown at an average annual rate of 0.9 percent. The 2006 emissions decrease is only the third decline in annual emissions since 1990.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/press/press291.html

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Is there any other industrialized nation that has had recent declines in CO2 emissions, other than the members of the former Eastern Bloc, who have failed their way to success?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Looks as if the silly Norveegians will have to shut down their refinery and quit driving cars, eh ?

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Nobody is going to bother to break the Norweigians’ chops over greenhouse gases. They will just be assumed to be green. Meanwhile, the US could slash emissions, and still be beat up on by the entire World.

Which should give you a clue that it is not about greenhouse gases, after all.

[citizen]

Please turn off the Statoil refinery until further notice. Citizens shall use horse and mule power and travel by sled, skis and bicycles. Oh, walking is acceptable as long as you make your own boots.

[Phantom Lord]

The irony of all of this and Kyoto is that the United States has had a smaller increase in carbon emissions than those who agreed to Kyoto, and our economy has grown more than theirs!

[goldfinch]

Looks as if the silly Norveegians will have to shut down their refinery and quit driving cars, eh ?And once they are told to set their thermostats down, they will be thanking their lucky stars for global warming.

[Bob]

Oh, walking is acceptable as long as you make your own boots.

And as long as you don't exhale. :=)

[NonValueAdded]

Norway's emissions up ... imagine them running a story like, "well, we had to generate extra electricity and burn more natural gas because it was unseasonably cold this year. [heard off stage: "hey, you can't say that!"] Oh, wait, did I say cold? er, I meant to say ... well, what did I mean to say? Oh, screw it!"

[expatpat]

I believe that France did pretty well, but Germany and Italy are going to pay large fines.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I don’t think so.

Industrial efficiency, including energy conservation, is tied to profit. Efficiency is a constant process in the U.S. despite Kyoto.

The U.S. also has vast carbon sinks in its forests, grazing lands and farm acreage for which it gets no credit. Meanwhile much of the Third World are destroying their forests through logging and slash-and-burn agriculture with no system of reforestation.

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The irony of all of this and Kyoto is that the United States has had a smaller increase in carbon emissions than those who agreed to Kyoto...

Yes, but they feel so much better about themselves...

[OrioleFan]

Erik Solheim, the government minister in charge of environmental issues who was in Bali last week, admits that Norway's own high level of emissions is "embarrassing." That's why the government plans to donate NOK 15 billion (nearly USD 3 billion) over the next five years to help preserve the world's rain forests. That's viewed as an efficient way of offsetting carbon emissions.

After the UN gets their pass-thru cut approximately $100,000 should be left to benefit the rain forrests.

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That's why the government plans to donate NOK 15 billion (nearly USD 3 billion) over the next five years to help preserve the world's rain forests.

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today -- Wimpy

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Oil for Food II

Why don’t they just sink the $3 Billion into making their own processes more efficient?

[Dagnabitt]

Norway's main exports: Oil, Gas, Sanctimony.

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And sanctimony is by far the most profitable of the three...

[VeniVidiVici]

Is there any other industrialized nation that has had recent declines in CO2 emissions, other than the members of the former Eastern Bloc, who have failed their way to success?

I'm sure theirs have skyrocketed since about 2000 or so but will probably never be as dirty as it was under communism.