People cannot be expected to freeze in the winter cold or bake in the summer heat, so the sources of greenhouse gases have to be eliminated. There is simply so much that can be expected of people voluntarily moving against greenhouse gas emissions. They cannot do it alone. The government has to move to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
This reporting proves the point. People can conserve to bring down emissions, but, ultimately it is the source of GHG emissions that has to change to end the pollution.
The climate crisis is real and unrelenting. Reductions in GHG occur in two ways, ending emissions and growing carbon sinks. We cannot fail. It is a promise to our children. We need to end the negative feedback loop.
The Paris Climate Agreement is a global initiative. Countries staking claims to development are entitled to that development, however, we already know the perils of using fossil fuels. The Third World is the most important place to end antiquated burning of fossil fuels and forests and must be helped to develop Earth friendly energy. Simply seeking development out of poverty is not an excuse for polluting. There are better ways forward.
The climate crisis is taking it's greatest damage to the Third World. Why develop these countries to perpetuate that trend? It makes no sense.
December 3, 2008
By AP
Washington — The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases (click here) flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.
The report said carbon dioxide, the leading pollution linked to global warming, rose by 1.3 percent in 2007 as people used more coal, oil and natural gas because of a colder winter and more electricity during a warmer summer. Half of the country's electricity is generated by coal-burning power plants.
A shortage of hydropower also contributed to an increase in the demand for fossil fuels, said the department's Energy Information Administration.
The EIA said that in 2007 the United States produced 8 billion tons of greenhouse gases, compared to 7.9 billion in 2006. The tonnage, presented in terms of "carbon dioxide equivalent" also includes methane, nitrous oxides and a number of lesser greenhouse gases, although carbon dioxide accounted for nearly 83 percent of the releases....
I am sure the methane leak in California which is growing in it's contact with more and more people will present itself as one of the greatest dangers to climate this year. That entire facility should have been condemned and permanently sealed from causing such danger again.
The methane is explosive and is a respiratory irritant and danger as well as a GHG. What is everyone thinking?
This reporting proves the point. People can conserve to bring down emissions, but, ultimately it is the source of GHG emissions that has to change to end the pollution.
The climate crisis is real and unrelenting. Reductions in GHG occur in two ways, ending emissions and growing carbon sinks. We cannot fail. It is a promise to our children. We need to end the negative feedback loop.
The Paris Climate Agreement is a global initiative. Countries staking claims to development are entitled to that development, however, we already know the perils of using fossil fuels. The Third World is the most important place to end antiquated burning of fossil fuels and forests and must be helped to develop Earth friendly energy. Simply seeking development out of poverty is not an excuse for polluting. There are better ways forward.
The climate crisis is taking it's greatest damage to the Third World. Why develop these countries to perpetuate that trend? It makes no sense.
December 3, 2008
By AP
Washington — The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases (click here) flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday.
The report said carbon dioxide, the leading pollution linked to global warming, rose by 1.3 percent in 2007 as people used more coal, oil and natural gas because of a colder winter and more electricity during a warmer summer. Half of the country's electricity is generated by coal-burning power plants.
A shortage of hydropower also contributed to an increase in the demand for fossil fuels, said the department's Energy Information Administration.
The EIA said that in 2007 the United States produced 8 billion tons of greenhouse gases, compared to 7.9 billion in 2006. The tonnage, presented in terms of "carbon dioxide equivalent" also includes methane, nitrous oxides and a number of lesser greenhouse gases, although carbon dioxide accounted for nearly 83 percent of the releases....
I am sure the methane leak in California which is growing in it's contact with more and more people will present itself as one of the greatest dangers to climate this year. That entire facility should have been condemned and permanently sealed from causing such danger again.
The methane is explosive and is a respiratory irritant and danger as well as a GHG. What is everyone thinking?
