Carbon Dioxide Down : So What!

The question that remains is why do we push to limit CO2? Many environmentalists believe that humans are the major cause of increased CO2 and that elimination of a large portion of the human race is a good way to stem the increase of this green house gas. And even better, cows are a big problem as well with all their farting.

This makes about as much sense as the entire lobby that is pushing the 'climate change' fraud on the public. How is it possible that we can continue with this hysteria over the problems that are supposedly caused by CO2 when there is so much evidence that has shown climate change facts have been managed or out right lies, and yet we spend billions on fighting shadows and thousands become unemployed as a result.

What ever happened to common sense? All politics and money?

United States Cutting Carbon Dioxide Production Dramatically
Source: Robert Bryce, "Inside the Strange World of 'Green Energy' Politics and How It's Ruining the U.S.," Fox News, July 17, 2012.

The United States is dramatically cutting its production of carbon dioxide. Proof of that has come from both the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris and the Energy Information Administration in Washington, says Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Reports from these agencies and others confirm that the United States is leading the way globally in the campaign to cut emissions.

•On May 24, the IEA reported that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions "have now fallen by 430 million tons (7.7 percent) since 2006, the largest reduction of all countries or regions."
•The reasons for that big reduction, says the IEA, are lower oil use, the economic downturn, "and a substantial shift from coal to gas in the power sector."

IEA's assertion that much of the reduction in emissions stems from efficiency gains due to the greater exploitation of natural gas is crucial. Because the United States is a leader in this industry and is among the first to employ it widely, it will likely lead the way in cutting emissions in the near future.

•During the first four months of this year, coal-fired electricity generation in the United States fell by 21 percent compared to the same period last year, while gas-fired generation soared by 34 percent.
•This contributed to a drop in carbon dioxide emissions of 7.8 percent from the first quarter in 2011.
•Meanwhile, complicated environmental emissions standards in Europe have actually led energy producers there to increase output from coal while shelving natural gas.

In addition, earlier this month, Lawrence M. Cathles, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, published a new study that found that utilizing natural gas to displace coal would be far faster and cheaper than attempting to use nuclear energy and renewables, and better yet, could reduce global carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent.

Nevertheless, much of the environmental lobby remains adamantly opposed to the use of natural gas, despite its cleanliness advantage over coal and the fact that it produces seven times more electricity than wind and solar combined.