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Ian W says:
At least one country is releasing more plant food into the air. Plants in drought and under heat stress need more CO2 to survive. There would appear to be no downside to release of CO2 as its atmospheric concentration has continued to rise while the ‘global heat content’ would appear to be static if not falling for the last 15 years.
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Anthony – first quarter 2012 CO2 emissions reported by the EIA shows the USA at 1990 emissions levels and on track to end 2012 to be 14% below 2006 emissions. Recall that Waxman-Markey 2020 target for cap and trade reduction was 17% which may be reached by the USA at the end of 2013 without cap and trade or a carbon tax. Does anyone see McKibben saying anything good about the USA success at lowering CO2 levels? Of course not because he is a transnational progressive that will never be happy with USA emissions reductions unless it involves the USA ceding sovereignty to the UN or to the NGOs that fund and/or support him. McKibben is an anti-industrial Luddite that wants everyone to go back to basket weaving and live in a tent like him. It seems to me that his missing the 1960s cultural revolution left him wanting to be politically and socially relevant and he suffers from a desire to relive the past in hopes of becoming relevant in this modern world. He will sit on his hands as China continues its growth of CO2 emissions to 20 Gt/year and only spend time condemning the people of the USA. He is no a climate hawk but a climate chicken-little hawk that doesn’t like the USA.