“The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis — a fall of 140 [million tons], or 2.9%, to 4.8 gigatons],” the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed in a report Tuesday.
The entire European Union, which consists of 28 nations, meanwhile only lowered emissions by 160 million tons total, or roughly 5.71 mt per nation.”
We should threaten Europe that if they don’t match our reductions, we will impose “climate change tariffs” on all their goods.
Beautiful! I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Thank you for posting.
This is so cool! Thank you again, Mister President!
First off; it never was about the “climate”, isn’t about the “climate” now and never will be about the “climate”
What it’s about is the raping of America’s, and the world’s, “unwashed masses” of trillions of dollars in new regulations, fees, fines, permits, etc. etc. to fund the communist one-world government. Here in the USA the communist’s “legalized theft” programs (taxes) are just not providing enough cash flow to fund their rabid agenda so they have to seek other sources to hoodwink the “unwashed masses”. “Climate change” is the perfect hoodwink...or so they think. They drool over the trillions they could reap from it. They also drool, and have wet dreams, of the confiscation of the trillions in our IRAs/401ks...IF they could do so without getting shot.
Communism and islam, both, should be outright banned in this country.
We should stop all new “climate change” regulations until the rest of the world catches up to us.
The rest of the good news that goes with this is that it all happened while the USA was growing economically.
Trump got the economy roaring again, while we still reduced emissions.
Those two are what makes this so great.
And does anyone know how we could reduce the man-made atmospheric carbon load to ZERO? First get over this superstitious fear of the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity. All the older uranium-fueled nuclear energy generation plants are almost at the end of their engineered lifetimes, and shall have to be phased out over the next few decades if not sooner. Ramp up the engineering on Thorium-fueled Molten Salt nuclear generation plants which have a GREAT number of advantages over the older Uranium-fueled light water reactors.
For one thing, they are, by their very nature, not subject to a runaway reaction and a disaster like Chernobyl, or utter failure of backup redundancies like the Fukushima Daiichi accident, both of which led to wide release of radioactive material. When a Molten Salt plant exceeds critical temperature, the molten salt is simply dumped into a containment basin, where its radioactivity is well contained. And another advantage, if it may be called that, is the thorium fuel by itself is fissile, not capable of initiating a chain reaction, unlike fissionable material, capable of a self-starting chain reaction, like Plutonium-239, Uranium-233, or Uranium-235. But seeded with small amounts of fissionable material from “spent” uranium fuel rods, the thorium can then be started on a sustainable fission decay under much more controlled conditions, and continue to “burn” the fissionable products, thus eliminating need for long-term storage facilities that would have to be in place for perhaps centuries. Also, Thorium-Fueled Molten Salt reactors are highly scalable, meaning larger or smaller units could be linked together to supply 24/7/365 baseline power for years, and could be placed in or near the locations of heavy consumption.
The disadvantage of Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors is that they do not produce Pu-239 as part of the operational process, and thus are useless for nuclear weapons production, which is why the Uranium plants were developed in the first place.
The technology exists, it has been done as a demonstration, and the need is there. Get cracking, America.
Well, I guess this is good for bragging purposes. From a perspective of true meaning, however, this is meaningless. Reductions in CO2 emissions will have not an iota of effect on the world’s climate. I don’t think we should humor the gullible alarmists’ misguided delusions.
How soon till I can replace the whole-house, gasoline powered generator with one of these?
What size would be needed to power a typical house?
Greta and AOC: nobodies of questionable intelligence elevated by the media into indisputable experts. All three have become quite tiresome.
Soooo...
Conservatives are taking credit for improvement to a phony statistic that is part of a liberal agenda?
Will we cheer when its announced that less Americans own “assault” rifles while [insert GOP POTUS] is in office?