By 2020, the US had reduced its emissions 22% below 2005 levels. The reason nobody talks about this is because it was mostly thanks to replacing coal with fracked nat gas, which emits half the CO2 as coal, and which had nothing to do with UN climate agreements or climate policies
The same thing happened in Europe. EU had by 2020 reduced its emissions 26% below 1990 levels, mostly due to replacing coal with natural gas, and closing dirtier coal plants in Eastern Europe, neither of which had anything to do with UN climate agreements
unherd.com/2021/11/climat…
And now, new data “actually shows slightly declining *global* emissions over the past decade,” something almost nobody is talking about
carbonbrief.org/global-co2-emi…
“The revision in global CO2 emissions is almost entirely due to revised land-use emissions.”
carbonbrief.org/global-co2-emi…
Why does any of this matter? Because facts matter, for starters. But also because 70% of Americans, disproportionately young people, say news media coverage of climate change is making them anxious and depressed
abc7news.com/climate-change…
The truth is that *most* environmental trends are going in the right direction
Climate scientists say “we’re hopeless unprepared” for climate change but that’s false. We’re more prepared than we’ve ever been. For politicians, activists, & journalists to spread falsehoods that cause anxiety & depression among schoolchildren is unconscionable
Me @GBNEWS
Ever since the above debate climate scientists have refused to debate me (see below). They falsely claim that I behaved inappropriately, talked too fast, and engaged in ad hominems. You can see for yourself that I didn’t. My real sin was pointing out truths they find inconvenient
Honestly, it shows the fragility of apocalyptic activists/scientists/journalists that they never mention
- declining disaster deaths
- no scientific scenario for more deaths
- no increase in disaster costs
- emissions declined 22% in US since 2005 & 26% in EU since ‘90
No issue since “over-population” has been more exaggerated than climate change…
What’s really being expressed is Western elite anxiety over loss of control
No wonder Xi & Putin both boycotted the wannabe imperialists at #COP26
Meanwhile, we are letting illicit drugs like fentanyl kill 100,000 of our family members every year. There’s no UN conference on it. No wall-to-wall media coverage. And no teenager urging us to panic
michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-drug-abu…
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