Its like I keep pointing out, Natural gas is a lot cleaner than coal. Fracking reduces greenhouse emissions. US emissions were going down even before Hussein agreed to Paris. They have continued to decline even after Trump pulled us out. Meanwhile not one of the European countries met the targets they agreed to in the Paris Agreement....yet they whine about us pulling out? LOL!
A lot of the German issue was the mandated and forced shut-down of the nuke-energy plants around the country. You could sit there and predict their numbers would grow in size, and the news media just absolutely refused to bring this up when the mandated order came up.
Natural Gas abundance in the USA is a result of “evil fracking.” It does reduce greenhouse gases, however this is of little importance. CO2 is plant food! When CO2 levels were many times higher than today in the geologic past life and plants flourished on earth. When C02 levels are low as today, life is hard.
Actually we live in an anomalous time on earth. The normal condition of earth is ice age. Enjoy it, it will not last and yes the polar icecaps may melt before the next cycle of glacial killing of life occurs.
Ice caps grow and melt due to orbital mechanics and sun cycles, not CO2. Man did cause global warming and man can not stop the next ice age. Man does fake statistics relative to weather data to give a desired political conclusion which is not bad science but just plain damn lies.
The science of weather and its statistics have become left wing political propaganda of which Goebbels would be proud.
Geologically speaking we may be in a warming period of an ice age that will return to full blown ice age. We may be in a true end of an ice age and the polar caps will melt. This has happened before and will happen again. We do not know!