America's oil boom is terrible for the climate

CNN ^ | 1/18/19 | Ivana Kottasová

[Sacajaweau]

Go bug China....the coal monsters of the world.

[ChildOfThe60s]

LOTS of medicines and health related products are wholly dependent upon petroleum.

These people so incredibly ignorant.

[Cobra64]

Not as bad as these naturally occurring phenomenon...

https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/34-never-before-published-photos-of-mount-st-helens-eruption/281-8122711

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[hal ogen]

cnn “is terrible for” truth, honesty, civility, sanity and Free America.

[seowulf]

Impossible. The “scientists” said we’d be all out of oil by now.

We have to believe them. The science is settled.

We reached peak oil in 2010 and we are now out. There is no more oil and climate change has been halted.

Rest easy.

[Flick Lives]

Buzzfeed is CNN's farm team. Just look at that bumper crop of "news"!!

[jonrick46]

These environweenies need to take a walk down the Santa Monica Pier to wait for the Mothership. Their cult needs a epiphany moment to understand their folly.

[RicocheT]

We snowbirds just drove from Wisconsin to Florida on gas refills at or below $2.00 a gallon. I like that better than worrying about a one-degree temperature increase over the next 200 years.

[stylin19a]

which is it ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-leads-all-countries-in-reducing-carbon-emissions/#41982e1d3535

[stylin19a]

which is it ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-leads-all-countries-in-reducing-carbon-emissions/#41982e1d3535

[palmer]

It is not CO2 it is water vapor and unusually volcano activity..

You mean volcanic CO2, not manmade CO2? Volcanic is about 1% of manmade. Water vapor? Yes, that's not accounted for in the models. Various natural cycles mainly in the oceans lead to long term variations in average water vapor.

plus the sun...plus you name it

The sun had a role in the 20th century warming. It had the highest activity in 100's of years (at least). Now the sun has become less active and although that will take a while to manifest, we shall see what happens.

[palmer]

Volcanoes are about 1% of the amount of manmade CO2. The better explanation is that CO2 started rising from 1850 and much more from 1950 due to manmade sources. Rather than volcanoes suddenly started up in earnest in 1950 after no doing much for 20,000 years (reasonably accurate CO2 record from ice cores).

The better question is so what. The manmade CO2 has prevented a Little Ice Age, at the very least. CO2 starvation, having the lowest CO2 in billions of years, is very bad for the biosphere.

[palmer]

The totals for CO2 output are pretty irrelevant. What’s more important is how much we produce with the CO2 we emit. Our production is three times greater than China per unit of energy. The mutiple for our CO2 efficiency is even higher. And as I point out al the time, CO2 is a net benefit.

[exDemMom]

Gee, if only that anthropogenic global warming would happen a little faster. Then maybe you wouldn’t have to leave Wisconsin for the winter.

[M Kehoe]

Drill baby drill.

5.56mm

[Cobra64]

I don’t believe CO2 levels has any effect on our climate.

[palmer]

That's plausible. But it would really only apply to the extra manmade CO2. The natural CO2 definitely correlates to temperature over the very long run. Namely warming produces more CO2 with a lag of 500-1000 years. More CO2 produces more warming (no lag).

Some of the current rise in CO2 is from warming 500-1000 years ago. But most of the current rise is manmade. Even if it does lead to a little warming, that's a benefit along with the CO2 itself.

[Vaduz]

And for their next findings humans fart terrible for the climate must be eleminated.

[Phil DiBasquette]

No such thing as climate change just climate