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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."
Stupid scientists conspiring to keep their jobs.
We are firmly dedicated to the principle that we should try to make life better for everyone. That translates to making energy as cheap as we can. The cheapest energy also emits CO2. Don't like it? Figure out ways to make and use energy that are cheaper than the fossil fuel energy. Raising the price of energy punts a bunch more folks into poverty, and poverty kills. Smoking can take 7 years off your life, but poverty can take 10. We're against that.
Plus, y'all have a credibility problem, and have from the start. People come up with alternative ways to handle the problem, such as geo-engineering, and y'all have kittens. It appears that you are way more dedicated to making life less enjoyable for people as a goal, rather than having the CO2 dealt with as the goal. You appear to simply want to control people's live, which comes with the ability to steal their money by deception. The global warming alarmism appears to be a deception. Start being reasonable about approaches that don't involve casting more and more people into poverty and I think you can expect a wider acceptance of your action plans.
Hey go fuck yourself. I'll fucking eat steak and hamburgers and still drive my truck. Fucking prick.
Interesting, someone was trolled by economics. Slashdot mods really are snowflakes these days.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"The standard of living must fall in the US."
Fuck you! We will continue to attempt to improve things for all Americans, and anyone getting in the way of that, well, they'll find out what those 300 million guns in American society are for!
You were modded down because what you say makes no sense. If you have some means of generating energy that is truly cheaper, then tons of "rich people" will jump on that, because manufacturing costs will drop and that will make them more money. There is no global conspiracy.
If leftists really thought that man made climate change is the biggest existential threat to the world they would not be in favor of people from the lowest carbon per capita producing countries immigrating to the the highest carbon per capita producing countries. Why would anyone turn a low energy consuming person, and their future children, into high energy consuming ones?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Exactly.
Where the fuck does someone get off telling someone else "You're just going to need to take a hit..."
Christ, the sense of entitlement is incredible...
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What a complete and total dick you must be in real life. Do people ever just punch you in the face for being such an asshole?
I don't respond to AC's.
It is about wealth redistribution, not the environment.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!