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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."
Yeppir!!! We can mostly only afford 1 vehicle now with the prices forced so high partly because of all the pollution crap, and sometimes we want to set out on the open road and drive a couple thousand miles (you can do that easy in a country this size - planning one for 10,000 miles next summer to north slope of Alaska and back (to Virginia)) and a Mini is NOT the car to do that in. It has to be comfortable for ALL our driving situations, and that means "buy the SUV." A red Ford Edge ST will be making the trip to Prudhoe Bay with me in it. If you bozos hadn't killed the bigger-car market with the insane miles-per-gallon CAFE requirements, maybe it would be a somewhat more fuel efficient CAR I would be driving, but NO, you-all have to F-up the market by making CARS to be undesirable for some of our requirements, so we buy cars that are suitable for ALL our requirements, and drive them ALL the time so's the end up consuming gas at 26 mpg instead of 40 mpg. You efficiency and safety zealots did this TO us, not FOR us...