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Well, lookee here: EIA has updated the numbers, and U.S. CO2 emissions are plummeting. In 2008, they dropped all the way back down to about 2001 levels. So far through 2009, emissions are on track to drop even further - likely to 1999 levels.
We signed Kyoto in November 1998, notwithstanding media confusion about that in theri anti-Bush struggle.
Since then, emissions have turned around - and it's cooling. [So what if this GHG-emissions reduction was accomplished the old-fashioned (and only proven) way - economic recession, and not recession-inducing energy rationing that Kyoto favors and cap-and-trade denands?]
So, can we declare victory and call our "climate envoy" (really) home? Of course, this dangerous cooling -- at this rate it will kill us all! -- cooling started well before the decline in emissions...ahem...but I'm willing to eschew claiming that one caused the other, no matter how much traction the even more specious claims about emission increases driving temperature have in this context.
Or is it really necessary to "spread the wealth around" to those countries whose emissions are rapidly rising?
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Haynes| 8.28.09 @ 8:35PM
The Kyoto treaty was rejected by the Senate. I think it went down to the tune of 96 'no' votes.
MrFishy| 8.29.09 @ 8:01PM
I am not in the habit of praising U.S. government agencies, but as government agencies go, the EIA (Energy Information Administration) is as good as it gets. They are small, with modest fudning, and staffed with cimmitted, diligent, professional economists and statisticians, and very independant (for now at least). They have no problem collecting and publishing objective data that contradicts official government policy, even their own DOE. Unlike any other government agency, you can call the EIA on the phone and talk to someone who knows something and is willing to provide information and analysis beyond what is published on their web site.
If you are not sure who to call there, call the National Energy Information Center, and they will put you in touch with the right person).
By the way, based on their energy consumption data, particularly petroleum, the economy is worse than the media and the rest of the government let on. According to their Weekly Petroleum data, oil consumption is down over 8% this year over last, much worse than what the GDP data shows.
Their web site (http://www.eia.doe.gov) is a wealth of information on energy supplies and consumption, and they are the gold standard in objective energy data and analysis.
Alarmist| 8.30.09 @ 3:31PM
Cooling!? The climate is COOLING!? AUUUGGGHHH! How can all you industrialists be so cruel as just to sit there and let Mother Earth freeze to death? Get out there and burn lots of coal and release lots of CO2 now! Now! NOW!!! Before it's too late! The future of our planet hangs in the balance!