Monday, May 21, 2007
What to make of this?
Instead of slowing down, worldwide carbon-dioxide levels have taken a sudden and alarming jump since the year 2000, an international team of scientists reported Monday...It is just way too easy to blame Our Dear Embattled Leader and his evil Grand Vizier Dickwahd al-Cheney, but the timing is right. And you know they have been doing all that they can. But I think the rest of us have been altogether too eager to follow in their carbon footprints.
...Instead of rising by 1.1 percent a year, as in the previous decade, emissions grew by an average of 3.1 percent a year from 2000 to 2004, the latest year for which global figures are available, the scientists reported in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
....The spurt in the CO2 emission rate is especially worrisome because it marks a reversal of a long-term trend toward greater energy efficiency and away from carbon-based fuels, the report's authors said.
As the little old lady who pissed in the ocean said, "Every little bit counts".
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