“Electric power plants are the largest single source of global warming pollution in the country, responsible for nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.”
A VERY CAREFULLY and EFFECTIVELY written sentence, implying that electrical power plants in the United States, ALONE, are responsible for 40 of GLOBAL warming in the WORLD. That is why the otherwise-discredited term “global warming” is used.
The truth, not that it matters though, is that China is well ahead of us in greenhouse gas emissions, and pulling away. We are only 18% of the world to begin with, and of that, only one third is from electricity.
So we are attacking a GRAND TOTAL of 6% of greenhouse gasses - in other words if we SHUT DOWN every power plant, world greenhouse gasses would reduce by a total of 6% - that’s it, not the 40% that this story is designed to make us believe. And, by the way, that 6% would be replaced in less than a decade by China and other countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sources-overview.png
Follow that first link you provided in # 53. When you get there, scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will see a link to per capita emissions. Follow that.
Compare China and the US on a per capita basis.
