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Reducing US greenhouse emissions 50 per cent by 2030: is it likely? : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 2/12/2021

As it stands, the US only reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 2 per cent from 1990 to 2019.

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I think the West could be sleepwalking its way into energy shortages. Wind and solar appear cheap at times but have integration costs that are downplayed. Those costs include new transmission, subsidies, frequency correction and firming by increasingly expensive gas. Hydrogen is an energy loser and batteries are expensive and of limited duration.

The green dream lives on however. Some nuclear power plants in the US northwest have been closed thinking the power would be replaced by Canadian hydro. When it came to building the new power lines the penny dropped that forests would have to be razed. In New York state new gas plants replace shut down nuclear. I think the Biden plan is facing a tough reality check before his term expires.
Posted by Taswegian, Thursday, 2 December 2021 8:40:11 AM
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Until such time as we, Homo Sapiens, reduce numbers and achieve a sustainable population level, by whatever means necessary, no change in the current situation is going to happen.
As this requires us to drastically STOP over populating and destroying our ONLY fragile home planet the future does not look great.
Posted by ateday, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:02:53 AM
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Of course not.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 2 December 2021 1:30:33 PM
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Why not ask; will we still have motor racing & other frivolous fume-spewing "sport" by 2030 ?
Posted by individual, Thursday, 2 December 2021 4:09:41 PM
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Homo Sapiens, reduce numbers and achieve a sustainable population level
ateday,
Totally right, suspend all money to countries that fail to feed their people & send sterilisation equipment instead to start ending the suffering & make them work together for a common good !
Posted by individual, Thursday, 2 December 2021 9:13:04 PM
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Highly unlikely Chris. By then the cooling planet caused by the quietening sun will have proved that CO2 has so little to do with climate that the scam will have fallen apart.

The elites will still be trying to reduce the living standards of us peasants, but will have been forced to develop a new scare tactic to do it.

I didn't realise that you were a true believer.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 2 December 2021 9:29:18 PM
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Ateday and Individual have got it - the eight billion lemmings are the problem.

UN Net Zero Emissions is a woke wellness program for the "left", whereby they can be useful idiots for the total war on the environment by the corporate right.
Posted by Steve S, Friday, 3 December 2021 5:50:27 AM
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It is extremely unlikely, Chris Lewis, because even though around 50% of the US electorate have only double digit IQ's, even those ratbags are starting to realise what idiots they were for voting for the Biden/ Harris clown show and their green policies.

Either Trump will be back with a vengeance, and the dem/green idiots running the USA will be wiped out, or another very capable republican candidate like Mike Pompeo or Senator Ted Cruz will be the next President of the USA.

Whoever it is, you can bet that they have had a gutful of this Chickenlttle Gaian religion called Human Induced Climate Change.

The earth warms and cools, warms and cools, in roughly 1000 year cycles, Chris Lewis, and it has been doing that for tens of millions of years. Our present warming period is "The Modern Warming Period". That was preceded by the Medieval Warming Period, the Roman Warming Period, The Egyptian Warming period, the Minoan warming Period, and the Sumerian Warming Period. Like I said, roughly every 1000 years. Our present warming period is right on schedule.

And you know what? Every single Climate "scientist" knows that the whole thing is a con to make their particular branch of science more important, and to get the rivers of gold from the taxpayer to fund their little works excursions to Greenland, the North Pole, and Antarctica.

They relied upon the ignorance of people like yourself to pull the con job off. Just say that the sky is falling down and every virtue signaler and world saver would come out of the woodwork to grandstand and posture. If you think that scientists would never lie to you and just look after number 1, without regard to what economic catastrophe they are unleashing on the world, I can only easily dismiss idea with two words.

Dr Fauci.
Posted by LEGO, Friday, 3 December 2021 6:53:00 AM
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Just as well then that the planet is cooling as confirmed by the satellite data. There has been no net warming since 1987. Also the sun is entering a Grand Solar Minimum - and it will get much colder in the coming years.

Those advocating population control/reduction need to red the 1972 Kissinger Report - available on the web - which explains the push by the UN and USA for fewer people - not because the globe can't support them, but because the UISA was worried that they would not be able to access enough resources for their own use. Such concerns have long vanished - but the overpopulation myth continues.

It is true that there are still many on the planet without access to electricity, clean water, sewerage, waste management etc. but this is where we need to be spending our money on, rather than the vain push to control the weather.
Posted by Gerard, Monday, 6 December 2021 12:02:59 PM
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