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Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com)
Global carbon emissions will jump to a record high in 2018, according to a report, dashing hopes a plateau of recent years would be maintained. It means emissions are heading in the opposite direction to the deep cuts urgently needed, say scientists, to fight climate change. From a report: The rise is due to the growing number of cars on the roads and a renaissance of coal use and means the world remains on the track to catastrophic global warming. However, the report's authors said the emissions trend can still be turned around by 2020, if cuts are made in transport, industry and farming emissions. The research by the Global Carbon Project was launched at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, where almost 200 nations are working to turn the vision of tackling climate change agreed in Paris in 2015
into action. The report estimates CO2 emissions will rise by 2.7% in 2018, sharply up on the plateau from 2014-16 and 1.6% rise in 2017.
Almost all countries are contributing to the rise, with emissions in China up 4.7%, in the US by 2.5% and in India by 6.3% in 2018. The EU's emissions are near flat, but this follows a decade of strong falls. "The global rise in carbon emissions is worrying, because to deal with climate change they have to turn around and go to zero eventually," said Prof Corinne Le Quere, at the University of East Anglia,who led the research published in the journal Nature. "We are not seeing action in the way we really need to. This needs to change quickly."
Almost all countries are contributing to the rise, with emissions in China up 4.7%, in the US by 2.5% and in India by 6.3% in 2018. The EU's emissions are near flat, but this follows a decade of strong falls. "The global rise in carbon emissions is worrying, because to deal with climate change they have to turn around and go to zero eventually," said Prof Corinne Le Quere, at the University of East Anglia,who led the research published in the journal Nature. "We are not seeing action in the way we really need to. This needs to change quickly."
I can understand under-developed countries like China and India, which are still in their growing years, but the USA 2.5%? There we have the real environmental criminals.
You have all the nuclear, solar, and wind, and policies, and programs, and abilities to stear the environmental situation, but you just keep burning gas and blowing fumes like nothing.
Global stupidity seems a constant factor on this planet. In some social groups denial of reality is most prominent, because reality challenges their believe and there behavior.
This proves that the world doesn't believe in the climate religion! We keep hearing about the coming apocalypse year after year and the only solution offered is to drastically increase taxes and make everything so expensive the average person can't live anywhere above the poverty level. Meanwhile, the "priests", if you wil," fly all over the world on their private jets and huge motorcades to lecture everyone else about driving their cars to their shitty jobs leaving their multiple huge homes empty consuming energy. The most vocal of them wants the heretic nonbelievers to be thrown in prison. It's a good thing the religion isn't in any significant power and all we have to see is a bunch of whining and hand wringing. Fuck the climate religion hoax and all the hypocrites who promote it.
Everybody blames the next guy.
We are all responsible.
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You ARE a hoax.
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Yeah. It's this newfangled religion called "Science"
Who believes this kind of nonsense ?
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We love Mr President like we love you. We are cannibals. We are the Republicans from the North Carolinia. We are go for Trump.
I find the /s tag to be offensive, but I guess some people need it.
...stuff that doesn't work, like emitting less CO2. We can't. We continue to show it, over and over.
Instead, put efforts toward something like this:
https://www.technologyreview.c...
Make that work, put our money in that, build 'em maybe $750 million worth a year all over the globe, and in 100 years we'll be where we need to be maybe. Certainly the world together could afford $750 million a year?
Trying to limit CO2 just makes the prices of everything go up, which punts a bunch more people into poverty, where they die. That is, poverty is deadly. Smoking will take maybe 7 years off your life, but poverty can take 10. Don't do things that make things expensive for the poor, or make middle class people into poor class people. Do something like this and then just the rich and otherwise well-to-do can finance it and leave the poor and middle-classers the hell out of it.
Also, that definitely wouldn't explain Exxon's internal science team predicting a 2C warming by 2060 back in 1982?
Do you think those involved in that internal study thought that would help them keep their jobs at Exxon?
Don't you think you could make a lot more money by saying the opposite? I mean, who do you think offers the fatter paychecks, the government (you know, the one that got its environment budget de facto axed) or multinational oil and gas corporations trying to avoid legislation that would cost them a LOT more than any climate scientist claiming that anything they do is a-ok with the environment?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So oil funded research is good, as long as we get the conclusion we expected.
Fail.
If we don't deal with overpopulation, nature will, probably a war or twentysomething, reducing the population to zero.
I work for an hospital, and I noticed a significant and irresponsible increase of people farting in my office, sometimes it sounds (and smells) like an epidemic. Some of them justifies themselves talking about Aerophagia, but I simply cannot buy that explanation, it's not supposed to be a viral condition, and it cannot affect so many people contemporarily. I scheduled a meeting with labor union representatives on this issue for tomorrow, because not only this phenomenon increases carbon emissions, but believe me, sometimes it's really intolerable.
Where the money and true power are they do not care because they have the money to either avoid the damage from it, or even profit from the effects. They also have a mostly short sight on the future, their generation, themselves mostly, and maybe their children. The rest of us can die gasping from their point of view. You can see it in their rhetoric about the lazy and entitled worker class. There are exception which may be LESS selfish, but once you climb at that level, it filters to mostly enable sociopath en mass compared to the normal population. I *FULLY* expect nothing whatsoever to be done expect band aids. Are our grand children fucked ? Definitively. But this is the type of society we promoted, and thus we die by the sword we wielded. I see nothing changing in the next few decades because the one in power have no real interest in it.
More like big oil knowing the facts too they just don't want to admit to it in public.
Like the tobacco companies.
That feeling in your gut is the mercury poisoning from coal fired power plant emissions.
Why isn't US #1?
China is beating us everywhere.
We can do better.
Are you getting tired of publishing this same old nonsense day after day?
Don't "feel", do research. Trump is a terrible role model - don't follow his lead by ignoring the data that's out there.
If you look at their data (download the PDF - it has the overview graphs), it's what you expect: CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in the West are declining. China, following massive rises, has plateaued at a high level - on a per capita basis, the same as the EU (shocking, given the number of Chinese living essentially pre-industrial lives).
On a per capita basis, the US is still far higher than anyone else. However, this has been declining at an impressive pace, and there is no obvious basis for the claim that US consumption will increase in 2018. In fact, that would be a huge trend reversal, and (imho) is likely a politically motivated claim.
Meanwhile, emissions from India and other Asian countries are increasing rapidly. In fact, they are driving *all* of the global increase, plus compensating for declining emissions everywhere else.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I liked the joke.
-- Cheers!
I people paid the real costs of flying, a lot of problems would be solved. Amsterdam, London and the like would have a LOT less tourists messing up the cities, Uber and Airbnb would go bust and the local would finally get some room to breathe in their own city. Tourists are fine but the maximum number has been crossed a long time ago. Oh, and we also would have an enormous amount less CO2 in the air. Only winners here!
-- Cheers!
Its always the US that is to blame or focus of blame. Although from the figures China and India are the biggest culprits. Yet they have not committed any time line to reduce emissions by any. The reality is, nobody really plans to do anything about it and for the US to commit even more to reducing it just means more producers of carbon emissions will just move their operations to India or China.
I thought you said it was already too late? But now we have another two years to turn it around, if we just follow your policy prescriptions?
with emissions in China up 4.7%, in the US by 2.5% and in India by 6.3% in 2018
Ah, that explains why the most vitriol will certainly be aimed at China and India. Right?
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The whole 'global warming' thing is a giant fraud, billions of dollars have been wasted on this scam, just think what could have been done with that money, it could have been spent on building schools and hospitals in Africa and India, etc.
If you have nothing to aim for you can never achieve it. I'll take the opportunity to thank the Coal and Oil industry for this excellent outcome and the promise of even bigger and better things next year. Way to go guys ;-)
Now lets get back to our important work of dumping plastic bags in the ocean to kill Dolphins, there is so much more that we can do.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
The rich have by far been the largest beneficiary of the productivity increases since the 1970s which resulted in the increased CO2 emissions. They have skimmed every bit of additional income for themselves. TAX THE RICH. And not just a couple percent more. Tax them so that they think it's 1970 again: You can pay yourself hundreds of times as much as your workers, but 95% of everything you earn beyond a 10x multiple goes to the IRS, thank you very much. Tax the sale price of any car that gets less than 35mpg 50%. Tax gas and kerosene 50%. Use the money to build solar, wind (and nuclear if you must) and subsidize electric cars $20000 in a new-for-old program. But first and foremost: TAX THE RICH. They have exploited the world for their gains.
So nobody blinks an eye at the fact that Pickup Truck and SUV sales are at an all time high?
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Seems to me the obvious culprit was the crash in oil and coal prices. Not only did this incentivize the energy producers to ramp up their fossil fuel operations, it incentivized the little man to go out and buy a 10,000 pound diesel truck. Has nobody else noticed this? We now have people using giant diesel trucks as commuter cars. Going food shopping in a 6-wheel diesel truck. Taking the kids to daycare in a diesel truck. I even see white collar office workers driving to their office jobs in diesel trucks. It wasn't like this before the oil crash.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the best possible thing that could happen for both the earth AND human beings would be for the price of oil and coal to skyrocket. Would it cause an economic disaster? Probably. Would it be worth it? Not a single doubt in my mind.
[Global emissions or temperatures] are at the highest level [in a long period of time]! We have only [small number] years to change our lifestyles before it's too late! One needs to go no further than to see [weather event which may or may not be related to climate change depending on whether it helps the argument] to know we're right. Sea level has also changed [five inches or less] in the past [small number] years.
The effort to fight [climate change or global warming, depending on audience] is hindered by greed and propaganda in [capitalist countries] from [far-right zealots]. "Their greed will destroy the world." says [quotable scientist].
One thing is certain: There is only one planet and even if [impending disasters] do not come to pass, we're still responsible for maintaining it.
Were 1000x Higher than this when Dinosaurs walked the Earth...
... about this but the data on this problem is pretty clear: If we don't get a handle on this problem and make it snappy, humanity and the ecosystem as we know it is pretty much screwed.
Just saying.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Thank your fellow Americans that insist on making SUVs the only vehicles that sell. Sometimes I think we deserve exactly what we are getting in this country. The majority of us are the walking dead.
So things randomly rise, even though the world is using more electric cars, solar, renewable energy?
Either those things produce more net carbon emissions through their entire process, or the findings are faulty.
How else does this make sense
The standard of living must fall in the US. I know people lose their fucking minds about this fact ("Freedom!"), but it's a fact. 10 billion people cannot live on the planet, all driving giant gas burning cars and eating everything wrapped in plastic. They can't.
I don't respond to AC's.
You're a fucking idiot. We can easily emit less CO2. We choose not to. We are very quickly killing our own environment. Being poor won't matter after we're dead.
I don't respond to AC's.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
The statement is that carbon emissions are higher across the globe. It's posited that its due to more cars on the road. However, I suspect that the metrics of newly added cars has not sky-rocketed. And many electric cars have been added. While some use of coal has returned. A lot of renewable energy has been added as well.
But surely, there wasn't a big trend across the globe. So what is not being said equates to one of two things...
a) We have been in a global recession and economic decline, and this was the first year to see a global shift into recovery
b) or there were multiple large natural phenomena which have contributed. (e.g. U.S. wildfires from mismanaged forestry, volcanoes, etc)
Likely, it was a combination of both.
Crossover SUVs are not the same SUVs of old.
They are a) built on car frames, b) using car engine and drive platforms, c) with next to zero towing capacity.
80% of SUVs sold today are nothing more than mid-sized hatchbacks with AWD. They are NOT SUVs. They're more akin to the old Subaru AWD station wagons than anything else. But marketing....
No one wants to drive a station wagon, and few guys want to drive hatchbacks. So they call them "Crossovers".
They are NOT built on truck frames, nor do they contain truck engines, and most of them have low towing capacity. Hence, their MPG isn't that far off of most sedans. And often significantly better than many minivans, of which Crossover SUVs have significantly displaced.
Where as real SUV is built on a solid much heavier truck frame. Can load and tow a significant amount of weight. And the non-2WD models usually feature "true" 4WD as opposed to mere AWD. (And yes, there is a difference.)
The tragedy of the commons is real, and has come up again, and again and again in economics. This time it is the atmosphere, and those who prosper most from the commons are responding to calls from the people for taxing the commons with "be REASONABLE!"
Basic. Fucking. Economics.
American cars are vastly less eficient than other contries. Even China buys cleaner cars. Plus per person they have a lot less of them and drive them less distance. China is moving to electric faster than America is. China's coal % for electricity has been dropping for a decade and continues to drop.
Go peddle your trollish lies elsewhere WindBourne. Per capita America is twice as bad as China, twice as bad as Europe and 10 times worse than India.Get your own house in order before lecturing people far cleaner than you are.
The moment I saw MailGaters from East Anglia quoted I knew this was more bullshit. 95% of climate pseudo scientists depend on data from known liars and scammers. If the East Anglia scumbags were Republicans you would be all over them and crying about vast right wing conspiracies.
It would be reducing emissions.
The problem is that at the same time the switch from Coal to Gas was happening, energy use was ALSO increasing.
Really the solution is nuclear baseline, battery storage, and solar/wind for above-baseline power demand.
I dare all the environmental activists to go to China and India and protest there.
It's countries behaving according to actual beliefs in CO2 being a problem for global warming, instead of the rhetoric they put forth.
For many countries, CO2 reduction is just another tool of economic war to the extent they can convince other countries to play along reduces their economic output and prosperity chasing the goal of CO2 reduction instead. That is certainly why China constantly promotes CO2 reduction despite doing essentially nothing to reduce it themselves.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Worst, I said in first posting that that America is buying lower mpg vehicles. So you lied about what I said
Secondly, these vehicles are as efficient as any from Europe esp since they are the same. Europe buys smaller cars because of small roads and families but same efficiency.
Third, when America/europe buys a new car, it typically replaces a car. When China buys a new car, it adds to their total. Iow, a car is typically not junked. As such, which 98% of China's vehicle bring fossil fuels, it adds lots more emissions. America's and Europe do not.
If you did the math, you would have found out that BOTH China and America have 2% of new car sales as EV. So you lie, again, when screaming that China is buying more.
Finally, with China at 80% of their electricity ( yes, 80% ) as coal, your electricity is filthy. Worse yet, while America continues to drop our coal, you continue to lie about your nation adding more coal than America has total.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Mar-a-lago will soon be underwater, thanks to you! "I don't believe it!" -- Delusional Donald Trump
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
This is a terrible troll. It's one thing to troll. It's completely another to come right out and say, "I would suggest at least you keep an open mind and read the climate change research from Heartland Institute to get the other side of this debate. ". Anybody with two brain cells to run together knows that the "Heartland Institute" assholes are on the wrong side of every subject, whether it's pollution, tobacco use, education, health care, or taxes. If you're going to troll this kind of serious bullshit, at least don't make it so damn obvious, dummy.
I don't respond to AC's.
So ... you want the US to become like Europe?
I certainly do. It would save me from having to move there to get out of this shithole country.
I don't respond to AC's.
Even China buys cleaner cars....
Stop accepting the bullshit statistics China feeds you and try visiting sometime. China DOES NOT have cleaner cars, as you can tell from the cars themselves, but especially from the hellacious pollution they have in many cities, even worse than LA in the heyday.
I find it amusing you also believe them about percentage of electricity from coal.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That's a great example of "fuck you, I've got mine". And your selfish fucking ass is why humanity is doomed. Because you *want* to drive a giant vehicle 10,000 miles because you *want* to, and fuck anybody else who says you shouldn't. You're a tremendous asshole.
I don't respond to AC's.
Q: What scientist keeps claiming a causality when they can't even demonstrate a correlation?
A: A scientist that gets paid for claiming a causality.
Maybe in China. Sure.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What does the cost of your house and car have to do with it, and who the fuck pays $6,000 for an EV charger?
Dirty little secret, economic activity uses energy. Americans actually like having jobs, homes, and feeding our families.
Yes. I'm 'murkin. It's my Constitutionally protected right. Now fuck off and die like a good little foreigner.
climate change
You can't do anything from all the GHG in the atmosphere and oceans now.
Or can you?
1. The 23 US States (and BC) that have Renewable Energy Portfolio standards of 50 pct of all new energy, lead the way. They reduced their emissions, even while their population increased and their GDP outpaced the rest of the US. This shows we need to set a 120 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), where for every new KWHr we use in new energy, we have to build 120 percent of that in renewable utility plants. This can include solar and wind residential use, but must include decommissioning of coal and oil usage.
2. A lot of China and India still use coal for heating. Fix that.
3. Remove all tax exemptions, exclusions, subsidies and grandfather clauses for all fossil fuel usage. This includes depreciation, which should sunset in 2020. Got a coal plant after 2020? Not a tax deduction for depreciation, and you pay the full cost of all cleanups.
4. We can remove carbon easily from both the food supply and the oceans (where it's been going). Institute large scale shellfish reefs (clams, mussels, other bivalves, not shrimp) with seagrass and seaweed planted in and around it. Studies show this acts as a massive carbon sink (the shells), you can eat the meat from it, and the shells can also be used in various forms of concrete, replacing the current sources that add to GHG emissions.
We've shown you how. Now stop whining.
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Some would say that its because of high EV growth in 2018 specifically the Tesla Model 3. LOL.
WE WILL MAKE SURE YOU FACE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Own the libs.
The only number that matters is total world output of carbon emissions. Countries can manipulate their carbon output to look clean through increasing imports. China produces a lot of carbon emissions but it is the largest exporter in the world. Despite the claims by many countries of switching to clean energy, many countries are also exporting their carbon output by importing high carbon output products. Germany for example, imports more than a quarter of its GDP. 10 percent of those imports come from China and 20 percent come from Asia. Germany's major imports from China are products with a high carbon output in manufacturing, such as heavy machinery, autos and auto parts. Germany also imports its electricity from other EU countries. Unless one accounts for the carbon emissions produced by imports, a focus solely on a country's measure of it own carbon emissions gives a false reading. Countries are also responsible for the carbon emissions produced by their imports. The US imports about 10 percent of its GDP. It is much more a closed economy than most other major developed countries. The US reduction in carbon emissions is a real number since its reduction is due to changes in manufacturing and energy production processes within the US and not through a switch to high carbon emission imports. Germany's switch to renewable energy has increased energy cost in Germany and made energy intensive (high carbon emission) products less competitive with imports. Importing a high carbon emission product that once was made domestically is not a true reduction in carbon emissions. The only change that occurred is the location of the carbon output.
...when you close down your nuclear power plants. The wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine. You have to have base load energy sources. Without nuclear, you get natural gas and coal as your base load sources. Precisely the opposite of what you're trying to achieve with wind and solar. You're doing it all wrong. Stop screwing around and get to work on thorium fueled MSRs. It's the only way forward.
wrong.
American cars are the same and have the same efficiency. Lower MPG does NOT mean lower efficiency. It means simply more fuel used per vehicle to carry more. Caffeinated Bacon, who posted the original, is a troll who constantly makes things up and lies.
BTW, America is switching to SUVs, but so are most other nations. That includes Europe and China. Probably the biggest difference is that Europe is buying SMALLER SUVS (or X-overs), while America has bought larger (due to our larger roads/families/ and probably just plain assholes who do not think long term) for the last couple of years. Thankfully, EVs are up to 2% of sales in America (and the same in China; not sure what Europe's is), and increasing fast.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Bacon head continues to try and pretend that China is not destroying this planet with their massive amount of CO2.
Go back to sucking Xi's knob and quit getting your head banged against the wall.
political suicide or "doing the Macron"
Since they cannot measure emissions, they know not of what they speak. They can measure atmospheric carbon levels, and estimate some emissions, for instance fossil fuel consumption. But a large source of emissions is concrete curing, and China is doing enormous infrastructure increases. Another is forest burning, and Amazon, California, etc are doing their part on that. Atmospheric carbon levels are emissions minus consumption. Forests consume carbon, so Amazon clear-cut / slash and burn with no replanting is a big problem, a double whammy. The ocean is the biggest consumer of carbon from the atmosphere, and it is filling up with carbon. Oceanic out-gassing of carbon has started near Antarctica. That is the biggest threat. The only way to actively combat atmospheric carbon levels is to plant fast-growing crops, like hemp or fast trees. But that is not technological and very lacking in profits for the many friends of people in office, so that will not happen. No serious kickbacks so not happening. Anything technological has carbon-polluting costs as well as carbon-consuming abilities, and what usually happens is that the (unconsidered) polluting of making the materials and equipment, and using them outweighs the supposed benefits. Methanol, for example.
wake up and hold your nose
We are all so lucky to be alive to witness it!
Cuts made to CO2 levels will just be gobbled up by the ever increasing human population.
Its naive to assume we can cool the earth anyway...
Good post.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Any answer to that question is irrelevant. The solution is to clean your shit up. I can only clean my yard and you can only clean your yard. You ain't gonna make another sovereign nation do shit. So quit your fucking bitching AND CLEAN YOUR GODDAMNED YARD. You're like a fucking obstinate 6 year old.
You only think it's a good post because you are also a card carrying member of the Insufferable Dick Club. Go be Deplorable elsewhere.
What are you on about now WindBourne? You are completely wrong as always.
Your whole post is just one big contradiction.
Apart from when you falsely accuse people of lying, when everyone knows it's you.
American cars clearly do not have the same efficiency, why claim they do?
What does lower MGP mean then genius?
America is switching to SUVs far more than other countries, it's just a fact Windtroll.
Europe buying smaller and America larger is what makes theirs better you fool.
(One thing right, America does have more assholes who don't care about the environment)(it's why you are twice other countries CO2)
EV's are a much greater % in China than America, you know this but continue to lie. Parts of Europe are better than both.
Guess you got lost...
Only reason America had a dip was the great recession. Now it's back to cheap gas, burn baby burn.
How many developed countries are higher than USA? Only Australia? How many are less, ALL THE REST !!
Per capita, the US generates more than twice as much carbon as other developed nations.(except Australia) Reducing your carbon emissions should be easy, because you are already ridiculously dirty and inefficient as a nation. Happy now?
Facts are, you are heading in the wrong direction, are over twice as dirty as just about every single developed country but trolls and liars like you constantly tell us how great you are.
Show where you get your 70-80% number?
Stop with the anti-China lies.
You know the US exports coal right...
You think China will stop burning coal because a random slashdotter tells them to? We can't even stop your constant lies, but we can force a dictatorship to change state policy? You are even stupider than imagined.
Those coal plants are jobs, no one wants to lay off that many workers, they all hope their plant will be allowed to continue and some one else will be forced to shut. You have a very limited understanding of this topic (and most topics it would seem) You already admit you know they are not even run close to capacity. Why do you think they build more? Your too childish and anti-China to even think a little bit about the actual situation.
You believe any lie if it suits you Windy
Not a single major prediction made by the climate change hysterics has some true.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12980690&cid=57730500
Americans have way more cars per capita than Europe and vastly more than China. So peddle your bullshit elsewhere.
What is this magic that makes these bigger cars more efficient?
Americans drive their cars further, even if they were the same efficiency (they aren't) they would pollute more. It's a fact.
America's transport CO2 is increasing, so what you said must be wrong. Again facts.
Show some evidence WindBourne. China has a much greater share of EV than America, show where you got your lies from.
There was no lie (you lie again) the statement was you lie and bullshit at every turn. It's clearly a fact, China isn't 80% coal powered, you keep peddling that lie at every turn.
Fact is, you constantly lie and bullshit every time the topic of CO2 comes up. You have never once show a lie like you claim, if you did, link to it.
You can't because you are a full of shit lying troll, falsely accusing others to cover for your lies.
Per person you are worse than Europe and china. Facts are facts.
You are basically the same as a European and Chinaman added together. Explain how that makes you cleaner then either of them?
You can't because you arent cleaner. You are twice as dirty, just have less people.
Only reason you can, sorry, COULD, reduce was because you were so far out in front.
Per person America is twice as polluting as Europe, twice as polluting as China and about 8 times as polluting as India. There would be something very wrong if you couldn't manage to drop more than those places. Take India for example there total per person is less than the amoount you claim you dropped in the last few years. For them to drop mnore they would have to go negative!! Yet even with your big drop you are still very vmuch worst than India.
Stop trying to lie that America is anything but dirty.
Capacity isn't use you dumbfuck
Americans consume the most and pollute the most. Coincidence? No of course not, the pollution is a direct consequence of the consumption. It's no wonder America per person is the dirtiest, they consume the most. It's common sense. Except for apologists and compulsive liars.
You can't argue whats written so make up some bullshit to pretend you are right? Who claimed batteries were cheaper than peaker plants? That's right no one. You are very manipulative and dishonest.
Science methods exclude any feelings, gut related included. Thought that would be obvious, but it turned out that it wasn't.
The only guy who got the sarcasm, was a real scientist with a PhD, according to his site. He got downvoted as well in the knee jerk avalanche.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j46mnIcz330
Like 2017, when France, Germany, Spain and Italy increased emissions, when US and UK dropped them?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
America isn't dirty because Canada is also dirty...
Apologist troll get lost.
Are you paid to be this dense?
China is already 1/2 your per person levels. You drop to meet them first. You should be developed enough by now...
It's not,