Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009

Hugh Pickens writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that the good news is that emissions from burning coal, oil, and natural gas fell 1.3 percent compared with emissions in 2008 primarily because of the global economic downturn and an increase in carbon-dioxide uptake by the oceans and by plants on land. One big factor was La Niña, a natural seesaw shift in climate that takes place across the tropical Pacific every three to seven years, where the climate is cooler and wetter over large regions of land in the tropics, encouraging plant growth in tropical forests. However the bad news is that even with the decrease in emissions the overall concentration of CO2 rose from 385 ppm in 2008 to 387 ppm in 2009, as concentrations continue to rise even as emissions slip because even at the reduced pace, humans are pumping CO2 into the atmosphere faster than natural processes can scrub the gas. Many countries have agreed in principle to try to stabilize emissions at 350 ppm by century's end, which would result in a 50 percent chance of holding the increase in global average temperatures to about 2 degrees C over pre-industrial levels."

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Let me put it like this

[durrr]

The market sure as hell fell more than 1.3%, would we really want to have a market running at a level equal to a 20% co2 decrease?
While i will obviously be rated trolls, some would like to see this scenario enforced globally trough opressive laws today, personally i think we should let the zombies run the apocalypse, not the enviromentalists.

Re:Let me put it like this

[durrr]

I suggest you go and build your Tautology Plant which obviously is free if it doesn't cost any money.
It's probably green too as there's no such thing fulfilling your specifications for the "alternative energy plant" in the real world. Or perhaps you've got a goverment supressed zero-point generator in your garage you wish to market?

This is getting creepy common

[HeckRuler]

We need to lose about 3 billion people,

I'm sorry, but this line right here makes you evil. Plain old fashioned evil. The type of evil megalomaniac that wants to KILL OFF THREE BILLION PEOPLE.

Now now, I guess I have to take that back. If you're willing to make a show of good will, and volunteer to be one of the first of the 3 billion, then I guess you're not evil.
Well?