The total is going down, but it’s doing so because electric generation emissions went down a lot while other sources didn’t change much. We need to actually address emissions from transport, industry, and buildings in a meaningful way, not just electric generation.
It sorta looks to me like if you stacked those graphs they’d still be going down.
The total is going down, but it’s doing so because electric generation emissions went down a lot while other sources didn’t change much. We need to actually address emissions from transport, industry, and buildings in a meaningful way, not just electric generation.
The total CO2 emissions of the US, even adjusted for trade, are going down since 2007-2008.
Also the only other period when the CO2 emissions of the US went down was after 1929 and 1975.
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