midwifetoad
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| Quote (stevestory @ Mar. 06 2013,15:54) | atmospheric CO2 went up nearly .7% last year.
We are fuuuuuuucked.
I'm expecting bigtime crop failures, famines, wars, and gas scarcities over the next few decades. |
I'm going to assume that you mean the annual average has increased from 387 to 393 ppm since 2010. Not the the percentage of total gasses increasec by .7 percent.
Oddly, the U.S. seems to have achieved its Kyoto protocol goals recently, and per capita emissions is down.
If the world moved more to natural gas and nukes, much of the problem would be solved. It would certainly buy time -- 50 to 100 years -- for greener technologies to come online.
It's a dark secret that the United States in on track to become energy independent in less than a decade. Not many press releases about natural gas production.
I realize it has the potential for other kinds of pollution, but not planet killers.
Edited by midwifetoad on April 04 2013,13:02
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