Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The new EPA regulations are to CUT greenhouse gas pollution by the USA, not export it.

Greenhouse gas emissions must end. Exporting greenhouse gas production to another country does not solve the problem. The requirements for USA to emit 30% less by 2030 is a joke if it is simply being exported and not sincerely reduced. This is horrible idea and defeats the efforts we have worked so hard for as announced by Secretary McCarthy.

Every country needs to take a stand against the USA exporting CO2 emissions to make goals achievable. 

I believe there needs to be lawsuits filed to stop this practice as well as exports of any form of carbon fuel from the USA.

By JOHN MCDONNELL 


...Meanwhile, (click here) the thawing of billions of tons of frozen plant matter in the Arctic could result in an acceleration in climate change as locked away organic carbon is released into the atmosphere, according to scientists.
The ice in the far reaches of the northern hemisphere is melting so quickly that a 'tipping point' - where the region no longer becomes a 'sink' for carbon dioxide - could occur within 20 years.
By 2200, around two-thirds of the world's permafrost will have melted, unleashing close to 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere - a process which cannot be reversed.
'Once the frozen carbon thaws out and decays, there is no way to put it back into the permafrost,' Kevin Schaefer of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado told the Independent...

There is baseline knowledge of global warming, in that the entire population of the world hangs in the balance not just the USA. Baseline knowledge of global warming also includes the fact the USA it the biggest historic emitter of greenhouse gases. More than most other countries, the USA has the highest historic emissions which provides ownership of the current crisis square on the shoulders of those that allowed it.