Comments on: CO2 from Coal in the US: Good News https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/co2-from-coal-in-the-us-good-news/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: BBD https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/co2-from-coal-in-the-us-good-news/#comment-659449 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:38:56 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30727#comment-659449 In reply to BBD.

Quick link to the Keeling Curve which tells the whole truth about our decarbonisation progress to date:

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/mlo_full_record.png

]]> By: BBD https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/co2-from-coal-in-the-us-good-news/#comment-659446 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:36:48 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30727#comment-659446 Let’s not forget that the US – in common with Europe and elsewhere – essentially exported emissions, mainly to China. The global total continued to rise across the entire period, driven by the growth in Chinese emissions as China became the workshop of the world. So I have very little time for EU pols or US pols patting themselves on the back over an illusory decarbonisation ‘success’.

What we need to do now is to stop switching to methane, and start switching only to wind and solar. Right now.

+1. As I keep complaining, gas is a bridge to nowhere. And IMHO, the gas industry is cleverly positioning itself to become the third leg of a W+S energy mix by midcentury, thus ensuring its survival and future profits and guaranteeing that deep decarbonisation of the electrical sector will never happen.

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/co2-from-coal-in-the-us-good-news/#comment-659430 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:55:24 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30727#comment-659430 Not bad. In 12 years we switched 10% from fossil to non-fossil. If we can keep switching over at 10% per 12 years, in just 24 years we will only be generating 42% from fossil fuels. Building more nuclear power plants would also help accelerate that trend.

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