US projects 4 percent emissions rise by 2012 to UN

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

US projects 4 percent emissions rise by 2012 to UN
By John Heilprin
Associated Press Writer / June 1, 2010

UNITED NATIONS—In its first major climate report to the United Nations in four years, the United States reported Tuesday that its projected climate-warming greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020.

The first such report submitted under the Obama administration includes a 1.5 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main gas from fossil fuel burning blamed for global warming.

But it's the culpability of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs -- promoted worldwide to replace chemicals that harm the globe's ozone layer -- that gets a starring role.

Though HFCs account for only about 2 percent of the globe's climate-warming gases, their share is expected to grow by up to a third of all greenhouse gases by mid-century.



Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/06/01/us_projects_4_percent_emissions_rise_by_2012_to_un/

[Nihil]

1. Spot the disconnect.

> US projects 4 percent emissions rise by 2012
> ... includes a 1.5 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions

US wondering why fossil fuel companies make so much profit.

US distraught when awareness forcibly dragged to the side-effects
of their greed & consumer-oriented lifestyle.

:eyes:

[robcon]

2. spot the disconnect

"US wondering why fossil fuel companies make so much profit."

Who is wondering that?

"US distraught when awareness forcibly dragged to the side-effects
of their greed & consumer-oriented lifestyle."

Who is distraught?

Do you always make shit up like that?

[Nihil]

3. Agreed: "wondering why" should have been "complaining that"

>> "US distraught when awareness forcibly dragged to the side-effects
>> of their greed & consumer-oriented lifestyle."
>
> Who is distraught?

Maybe I misread the tone of the thousands of "OMG teh Gulf is ded" posts?

There again, maybe you are just in denial?

:shrug: