See, now this is what tells you the EU will kill off their great global warming scam soon. The US has eliminated all the EU’s carefully crafted effort to sabotage US manufacturing advantage based on the 1990 Kyoto baseline (when the UK switch to gas and the impending collapse of hopelessly inefficient Soviet bloc industry ceded a huge effortless emission reduction to the EU). Good ol’ ‘murican “can do” and “know how” delivered the supposedly necessary carbon intensity reduction without gifting the EU the slightest industrial advantage. Now the failing EU will slink away with a “wasn’t necessary anyway…” and look for another way to tilt to global playing field in their favor. The only thing we know for sure is that it won’t be by working harder and outproducing America.
America’s carbon emissions may drop back close to 1990 levels this year. That result would have been thought impossible, even at the end of 2011. But the shale gas revolution makes a reality of many things recently thought impossible. Shale gas production has slashed carbon emissions and saved consumers more than $100 billion per year. Truly astonishing!
For US energy-related carbon emissions, fuel switching to gas is back to the future. After the first quarter, the USA’s 2012 emissions are falling sharply again and may drop to 1990 levels, or just slightly above that important milestone, according to data in EIA’s latest Monthy Energy Review.
America’s energy related carbon emissions fell about 7.5%, during the first three months of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011. And first quarter 2012 emissions are approximately 8.5% lower than emissions in the first quarter of 2010.
Total energy carbon emissions were 5,473 million tons in 2011 and last year fell below the 1996 mark of 5,501 million tons.
The first quarter 2012 reduction of 7.5% makes it possible that this year emissions will fall back essentially to the 1990 level of 5,039 million tons. That is shockingly good news.
The 1990 level of carbon emissions is an important measuring stick, as it is often used as a critical data point for judging progress in reducing a nation’s carbon emissions.
I’ll be sure to watch CNN, NBC, CBS & ABC tonight for this as their lead story.
Don’t worry, the rash of wildfires will bring CO2 levels back to alarm stage again. Oh I forgot, wildfires do not generate CO2 or any other greenhouse gasses or cause air pollution.
It’s just like the GMO Frankenfoods scare. The Euroweenies knew our seeds and foods are cheaper and better so they put up another scare story to keep out the competition.
If you look around at the Satanic Gases scam you could see through the fog of BS to the real results – America hobbles its industry with Draconian nonsense restrictions and taxes to the advantage of Europe, including Russia.
Seems like a lot of wishful thinking. More likely the major influences were the recession and favorable winter weather. It was hard to find generation rates by type on the EIA website, but it looks like the reduction in GHG is more likely due to reduced generation since generation by coal doesn’t look like it is being replaced by natural gas. The data end in April and are projected through June. We had a very mild winter, which drops the demand for electricity. We’ve also been in a recession and have had an ongoing lower demand, as evidenced by the spot and dayahead electrical prices. Large natural gas turbines and combined cycle generating facilities are PSD sources. You’d be real lucky to get all the design, permitting and construction done in three years.
Yes Bob. One warm winter will reduce GHG emissions more than all of the hare brained schemes the greens can think up.