Saturday, July 20, 2019

FWIW: US CO2 Emissions To Drop In 2019

Faux environmentalists can ride this horse for decades:
  • climate changes are so subtle, "they" can say whatever they want; impossible to prove fake;
  • global warming / climate change / extreme weather has simply become a religious cult; it is not science; was never science;
  • atmospheric CO2 will continue to rise slowly for decades, maybe eventually plateau off but it will be long after most of those reading this will be long gone;
  • George Carlin had it right
Link here.


US emissions, from EIA link above, 1.5 billion metric tons:


The slope of that bar graph "curve" tells me that the faux environmentalists can ride this horse for decades. Emissions in 1Q19 (most recent quarter where data is available): just short of 1.4 billion metric tons; five years ago, 1Q14, emissions were just slightly above 1.4 billion metric tons -- and that's after putting a lot of coal miners out of work, and decades of wind/solar development.

USA Today ranked the top 25 countries by CO2 emissions from fossil fuels:
  • #1 - China: 9.8 billion metric tons
  • #2 - US: 5.3 billion metric tons
  • #6 - German: 0.8 billion metric tons
But look at this, change in CO2 emissions since 1992:
  • China: 270% (no typo)
  • US: 1.8% (essentially flat)
  • German: - 17% (wow)
CO2 emission intensity (CO2 emissions / GDP per capita):
  • US: 5.4 billion metric tons / $54K = 0.1
  • China: 9.8 billion metric tons / $15K = 0.7
  • Germany: 0.8 billion metric tons / $45K =  0.02
Germany, at 800 million metric tons is 5% of US and China combined.

China has an intensity of 35x that of Germany.
China has an intensity of 7x that of the US.

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