Study: World carbon emissions are speeding up »
Posted by: jcolman 1 year, 3 months agoWorld emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased three times faster after 2000 than in the 1990s, putting them at the high end of a range of forecasts by an international climate change panel, scientists reported on Monday.
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tiredofnonsense1 year, 3 months ago
The Bush administration has pointed to recent declines in U.S. carbon intensity and has set the goal of cutting this measurement by 18 percent over 10 years.
Field called the U.S. government's goal "very modest."
"Historically, since 1980, without doing anything, the carbon intensity of the U.S. economy has gone down about 1.5 percent per year, so when they talk about a goal of getting 1.8 percent per year, it's not much change from where we are now," Field said by telephone.
This is still better than Europe where the output is growing
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