Carbon Emissions Continued Increasing Last Year, Especially in China and India - But Not the US (apnews.com) 55
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Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. This year the world is on track to put 41.2 billion tons (37.4 billion metric tons) of the main heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere. It's a 0.8% increase from 2023, according to Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track emissions... This year's pollution increase isn't quite as large as last year's 1.4% jump, scientists said while presenting the data at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan...
The continued rise in carbon emissions is mostly from the developing world and China. Many analysts had been hoping that China — by far the world's biggest annual carbon polluting nation with 32% of the emissions — would have peaked its carbon dioxide emissions by now. Instead China's emissions rose 0.2% from 2023, with coal pollution up 0.3%, Global Carbon Project calculated... [Although its growth rate now is "basically flat," O'Sullivan said.] That's nothing close to the increase in India, which at 8% of the globe's carbon pollution is third-largest carbon emitter. India's carbon pollution jumped 4.6% in 2024, the scientists said.
Carbon emissions fell 0.6% in the U.S. mostly from reduced coal, oil and cement use. The U.S. was responsible for 13% of the globe's carbon dioxide in 2024. Historically, it's responsible for 21% of the world's emissions since 1950... Twenty-two nations have shown steady decreases in emissions, O'Sullivan said, singling out the United States as one of those. The biggest emission drops from 2014 to 2023 were in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Europe, which accounts for 7% of the world's carbon pollution, saw its carbon dioxide output drop 3.8% from last year — driven by a big cut in coal emissions.
Some interesting statistics from the article:
The continued rise in carbon emissions is mostly from the developing world and China. Many analysts had been hoping that China — by far the world's biggest annual carbon polluting nation with 32% of the emissions — would have peaked its carbon dioxide emissions by now. Instead China's emissions rose 0.2% from 2023, with coal pollution up 0.3%, Global Carbon Project calculated... [Although its growth rate now is "basically flat," O'Sullivan said.] That's nothing close to the increase in India, which at 8% of the globe's carbon pollution is third-largest carbon emitter. India's carbon pollution jumped 4.6% in 2024, the scientists said.
Carbon emissions fell 0.6% in the U.S. mostly from reduced coal, oil and cement use. The U.S. was responsible for 13% of the globe's carbon dioxide in 2024. Historically, it's responsible for 21% of the world's emissions since 1950... Twenty-two nations have shown steady decreases in emissions, O'Sullivan said, singling out the United States as one of those. The biggest emission drops from 2014 to 2023 were in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Europe, which accounts for 7% of the world's carbon pollution, saw its carbon dioxide output drop 3.8% from last year — driven by a big cut in coal emissions.
Some interesting statistics from the article:
- Burning coal, oil, and natural gas is currently emitting 2.6 million pounds (1.2 million kilograms) of carbon dioxide every second..."
- In the last 10 years, emissions have gone up about 6%.
- Global carbon emissions are more than double what they were 50 years ago, and 50% more than they were in 1999.
"If the world continues burning fossil fuels at today's level, it has six years before passing 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the limit agreed to at the 2015 climate talks in Paris, said study co-author Stephen Sitch. The Earth is already at 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit), according to the United Nations."
Yet "Total carbon emissions — which include fossil fuel pollution and land use changes such as deforestation — are basically flat because land emissions are declining, the scientists said."
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Deficit spending doesn't promote more economic growth than it stunts.
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LOL. How many jobs do you think will be cut?
That's zero-sum thinking. The money not spent on bureaucrats will be spent elsewhere, increasing demand and generating jobs.
We can't tax-and-spend our way to prosperity.
Too little government is a problem. Too much government is a problem.
Right now, do we have too much or too little? I don't know.
Most likely, we need to cut some areas and increase others.
Corruption letting the USA down (Score:2)
Too little government is a problem. Too much government is a problem.
Right now, do we have too much or too little? I don't know.
Doesn't matter how big or small a government is if its corrupt. Corruption is not a problem at that point. It’s THE problem.
Most likely, we need to cut some areas and increase others.
We definitely need to fire a lot of people and send a message about corruption via actual prison time. Thats no longer a theory. Much like it’s no longer a theory as to why America “needs” two political parties aimed at each other at all times. Makes for one hell of a Weapon of Mass Distraction. Hell, you can turn a billionaire-hating bartender into a bill
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"We definitely need to fire a lot of people and send a message about corruption" Okay, let's start with the former alleged president who plans on making the U.S. government a proxy for his rich "friends". He has no friends, only grifters who think nothing of making government their plaything.
By the way, he still selling his Chinese made bibles. His cabinet pics think the End-O-World is nigh and we all need to get Israel to annex the West Bank so they'll feel confident enough to raze the Dome on the Rock and
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> The money not spent on bureaucrats will be spent elsewhere, increasing demand and generating jobs.
Or end up making billionaires even richer, which is usually what happens.
> We can't tax-and-spend our way to prosperity.
We absolutely can, though, because as you pointed out that money is spent and recycles through the economy. The key difference is that taxes pry that money out of the pockets of billionaires and force it back into the economy where it can do some good.
And the secret is to spend that ta
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Deficit spending doesn't promote more economic growth than it stunts.
And prioritizing economic growth every time, is how we fucking got into this mess. Now imagine how we get out of it. Seriously. Specifically the option where we’re not forced to via our own demise.
This isn’t about growth anymore. Time to tell Greed to sit down and shut the fuck up.
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> Time to tell Greed to sit down and shut the fuck up.
That and seating Usury right next to her.
"making a profit off a loan from a poor person is exploiting that person"
That's christian wording, but all Abrahamic religions have a similar concept.
Until people in the west... (Score:5, Insightful)
...stop buying endless throwaway crap from China then their emissions won't go down. A lot of China's emissions are outsourced from the wests former industrial capacity. People need to take a good look in the mirror at their own lifestyles if climate change is really going to be combated, otherwise its all just virtue signalling.
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China was very close to coming down. Even with morons still claiming it "rising faster than ever reeeeeee"
It doesn't look like America will come down fast enough to ever be lower than China's CO2. [ourworldindata.org]
Re: Until people in the west... (Score:2)
Following your sum total, even while 75% of US adults are now obese, Americans in total are still lightweight compared the Chinese. Keep up the munchies, you're way behind!!
https://www.reuters.com/busine... [reuters.com]
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Even if we did that, China is not going to stop the transition from agrarian to urban for hundreds of millions of people.
That's really what this is down to. Building, short term solutions to local energy issues. With the amount of renewables going in, it's only a matter of time.
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...stop buying endless throwaway crap from China then their emissions won't go down. A lot of China's emissions are outsourced from the wests former industrial capacity. People need to take a good look in the mirror at their own lifestyles if climate change is really going to be combated, otherwise its all just virtue signalling.
The people buying endless throwaway crap, are also the same ones enjoying endless stock market returns.
Nothing like egging on a situation when you’re the crap-hoarding consumer and the investor.
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People need to take a good look in the mirror at their own lifestyles
Before we change our lifestyle we can simply do a lot to reduce senseless waste. Lifestyle implies that living would get tougher. Not that we do stupid things like throw repairable things away, leave the AC on all day when no one is home, buy V8s instead of sensible cars, etc.
Now those people who need a lifestyle change are bitcoin miners. A good change for them would be to wake up in hospital with their knees broken.
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See that's the problem.
You cannot say that when most of the country's living paycheck to paycheck. The throwaway stuff is how many survive, and we met this issue times and times again when we wanted to get rid of plastic. It simply makes things to expensive when "get shit cheap" is entirely baked into the system.
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Well, yes, but the throwaway crap would still be eye-poppingly cheap if China adhered to some eco rules.
So let's not act as if this wasn't a question of an inferior culture taking their profits from everybody's future including their own offspring.
I am done with acting like every culture was equal in quality.
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An American emits more CO2 than a European and a Chinese added together.
Good grief! What are you guys eating?
Re:Bu bu bu.. (Score:4, Informative)
An American emits more CO2 than a European and a Chinese added together.
Good grief! What are you guys eating?
We eat a pretty normal diet. What he's talking about is this:
US emissions per capita are about 13,8 metric tons.
EU emissions per capita are about 7,25 metric tons.
China emissions per capita are about 8 metric tons.
Sum up the per capita emissions for China and Europe their emissions are only 1,45 metric tons greater per capita combined than those for one American. He's not correct in that the per capita emissions for the US are greater than those of the EU and China summed up but he's not far off. American emissions are grotesquely disproportional to those of other major industrial powers.
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America 14.3
Eu(28) 5.4
China 8.4
8.4+5.4 = 13.8
Which is less than 14.3
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China has a population greater than the US and Europe combined
Using the numbers from your chart...here are the total emissions of those regions:
US 335 million people x 14.3t/capita = 4.79 Billion Tons
China 1.4 BILLION people x 8.4t/capita = 11.76 Billion Tons
EU 449 Million people x 5.4t/capita = 2.42 Billion Tons
So, let's stop pretending like China is doing a great job....and lets stop pretending that the US is the only country that buys stuff from China. There's a few bill
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If you get to cheat by averaging with much cleaner people
That's literally what China is doing by averaging with 500ish million impoverished rural citizens, that don't live in the 1% of land area responsible for 75% of the emissions..
Don't forget! (Score:2)
Blame the US somehow. Even if the numbers don't really back the argument.
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The US is still China's biggest customer.
We are not responsible for all of the ill in the world, but we do have an outsized share
anyone know if we have open data for carbon emissi (Score:1)