19 Aug: Washington Times: Stephen Moore: ‘Who’s the cleanest of them all’
CHART: Paris Accord Flop
No European countries are meeting their targets for emission reductions agreed to in the Paris Climate Accord
All but 5 countries aren’t even at 50% of their current targets.
Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no and no.
The answer to that question is the United States of America. Wow! How can that be? This must be a misprint. Fake news. America never signed the Kyoto Protocol some two decades ago. We never enacted a carbon tax. We don’t have a cap and trade carbon emission program. That evironmental villain Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris climate accord that was signed by almost the entire rest of the civilized world...
The major reason for the reduced pollution levels is the shale oil and gas revolution that is transitioning the world to cheap and clean natural gas for electric power generation.
Meanwhile, as our emissions fell, the pollution levels rose internationally and by a larger amount than in previous years. So much for the rest of the world going green...
For every ton of reduced pollution the United States emits, China and India produce almost 10 more tons...
Yet, we are being lectured by the sanctimonious Europeans and Asians for not doing our fair share to save the planet. It’s another case study in how the left cares far more about good intentions than actual results. What matters is that you say that you will wash the dishes, not that you actually do it.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/19/the-united-states-didnt-sign-the-paris-climate-acc/
27 Jun: CNBC: US oil exports boom to record level, surpassing most OPEC nations
by Patti Domm
U.S. oil exports reached a record 3 million barrels a day last week— a greater amount than is pumped each day by all but three OPEC countries.
When combined with fuel products, like diesel and gasoline, U.S. oil and related products exports totaled 8.5 million barrels a day last week, the most ever, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly data.
U.S. oil production also continued at a record pace of 10.9 million barrels a day, a level first reached this month. That is more oil than produced by every other country in the world, except for Russia, which does not belong to OPEC and pumps just over 11 million barrels a day. U.S. refineries also took in a record 18 million barrels of oil.
To put U.S. exports in context, the U.S. was able to export more oil per day last week than most OPEC countries drilled...
“The fact is we’re loading crude oil for export across the Texas Gulf Coast. The biggest issue that exporters are facing is getting oil from the Permian basin to the Gulf Coast because of the lack of pipeline capacity,” said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/us-oil-exports-boom-to-record-level-surpassing-most-opec-nations.html
But if you are interested, here's a website that tracks the nations' conformance to their commitment.
Yours is a good rebuttal to eco-terror greenies. Reminds of the plastic pollution in oceans and beaches; we're eco-conscious to the point of worrying about straws while China and other Asian countries dump plastic pollutants in rivers and oceans, and the stuff floats over to us. We're not the bad guys when it comes to pollution.