Posted on 02/17/2020 7:37:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that tracks carbon emissions worldwide dropped great news for the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump on Tuesday. "The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt. US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period."
Not only is Trump leading the world in economic success but he's also doing exactly what the climate scolds all claim they want, which is leading the world in energy saving. Carbon emission reduction isn't the only win for Trump's policies, the IEA also reported that natural gas is on the rise and coal-powered energy declined by 15% in America. "A 15% reduction in the use of coal for power generation underpinned the decline in overall US emissions in 2019. Coal-fired power plants faced even stronger competition from natural gas-fired generation, with benchmark gas prices an average of 45% lower than 2018 levels. As a result, gas increased its share in electricity generation to a record high of 37%."
Is there anything this president can't do? The air is cleaner, the stock market is booming, now, if we could only get him to tear down all the unsightly and ineffective wind farms that do next to nothing he'd be elected president forever. Do not look to the Democrats to give Trump any credit for the energy reductions and number one status in the whole darn world for "green" policies. They will continue to claim he wants to kill the planet and rape the earth of its bounties.
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New technology will do this over time anyways
Leftist hysteria is just that.
Cars/factories/power plants/etc get more and more efficient over time as technology improves.
Leftists want to believe that the government is the only entity that can solve their imaginary threat.
CO2 is not a problem, it is just plant food. Without it, we all die
Reducing CO2 is caused by burning less things. Since burning fuel costs money, capitalism provides incentive to reduce the cost... whether it’s needed from a save the planet perspective is irrelevant to the equation
Anyone surprised that the US reduced emissions more than the rest of the world doesn’t understand the program
All because of the DOE Energy Star program /s/
Greta? Paging Greta ??????
The planet needs more CO2. It is disappointing that the US ranks last in increasing this life giving compound.
That’s why the title of the thread has this question, is it even necessary to make a big deal of it?
It’s shameful that we’re so biased against plants, which need CO2. :)
CO2 is not a dangerous pollutant.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution!
It’s about power, not about lowering CO2, it’s a means to an end. Complete power for the Left.
The enviro-whackos, like the race baiters, only want more money, not any actual change.
New technology will do this over time
This. The flawed (and biased) projections of climate change in a decade, 50, or 100 years are based on current technology and energy usage.
The explosion of technologies we witness today are accelerating. Many of the “problems” we face today are the targets of these technologies so long-term predictions are invalid the day they are made.
Cow deer ewe!
Well most of their models are based on what was happening in 1998-2006 anyways. If you look at those models, flawed that they were even at the time, it looks like we were doomed by 2012, but it never happened.
Flawed models
outdated models
based on technology that is being phased out or improved
=
doom and gloom!
That is the key problem with all of these predictions is that they assume nothing will change, nothing will get more efficient and nothing will get more cleaner just through technological advances that go on daily.
Its really a scare tactic/hoax at this point.
I love science, but this has never been about the science. It is about the absolute power over you, me, and the world that they seek.
So the USA should claim credit for reducing a non-existent problem just because our economic freedom allows us to have more left over after the damage is done?
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