Posted on 01/10/2022 11:18:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putting America further behind its 2030 climate change cutting goal.
Three different reports released Monday, though not directly connected, paint a picture of a U.S. in 2021 struggling with global warming and its efforts to curb it.
Scientists have long said human-caused climate change makes extreme weather nastier and more frequent, documenting numerous links to wild and deadly weather events. They say hotter air and oceans and melting sea ice alter the jet stream which brings and stalls storm fronts, makes hurricanes wetter and stronger, while worsening western droughts and wildfires.
Experts expected U.S. greenhouse emissions to increase from the steep 2020 pandemic dive, but how big it jumped worried them.
“What was dismaying was that emissions bounced back even faster than the economy as a whole,” said Rhodium Group partner Kate Larsen, a co-author of the emissions report, which was based on daily and weekly government data.“
Coal use increased for the first time since 2014, 17% from 2020, mostly because of spikes in natural gas prices, Larsen said.
“This is an example of how we’ve been riding on cheap natural gas to drive coal’s decline over the last 15 years,” Larsen said.
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Bad weather causes carbon dioxide emissions.
It’s true.
They AP will not make payroll if they denigrated the Chinese and Winnie the Pooh.
Can I get the “Not the S### Again” gif?
(See? I can make up science crap along with the best of them.)
Climate change is a vicious cycle. The colder it gets the more wood gets burned in my stove releasing hydrocarbons.
Laugh if you want, but the climate change shutdowns are coming. COVID shutdowns had zero pushback, and this will not either. COVID was the test to see if they could get away with it. They couldn’t believe how easy it was to discard liberty by decree. It’s coming soon.
Lies
LOL, we know the trucking industry was having problems, so I'm
having a hard time swallowing that one. Rememeber? We did not
have enough trucks to unload ships at our ports.
There may have been more short haul trucking, but then again
whose fault was that? You pin folks up in their homes and
they have to get things into their homes some way. Who knew?
As for more coal, I wonder why that was? Oh yeah, they
interrupted the oil supply line, so that those prices
soared, and supplies dwindled.
These Leftists create more problems with their fixes, than
we ever see normally.
Not going to the All Propaganda site to see if they make mention of the chicoms unbridled emissions.
Seth, Seth . . .
Harbinger of Death.
Seems like I had read sometime back that CO2 levels always lagged behind the rising temps; were not CAUSED by them. But of course, what is scientific evidence compared to what a bunch of bubbleheads think.
BS, it wasn’t “extra hot”.
Unhhhh, China?
I believe in cyclical weather patterns, and I’ve been adult more years than this glo-bull warming.
The whole scheme of this glo-bull warming is to control everything you do, while preach at you to throw more money at it, like an evangelist preaching the end times, then taking a separate collection plate.
The academics probably understand exactly what it means, but this isn't science science, this is political science.
It’s crazy. The snowflakes need to take one for the human race and stop exhaling CO2 ;-)
When it comes to narrative...CYA.
“Because coincidence is causation.”
…and it always has been. To think otherwise is racist.
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