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BREAKING: Global carbon emissions have begun to accelerate upwards again in 2017 and 2018, after a three-year lull.
It must be said: We are making the worst problem we have ever created even worse—at an ever-faster rate.
This is madness. We are self-sabotaging our own planet.
Carbon
emissions are about to hit an all-time high
5
December, 2018
Carbon
emissions are about to hit an all-time high, thanks to cars.Global
greenhouse gasses will have increased by 2.7 percent by the end of
2018, according to a
grim new report from the Global Carbon Project
Released on Wednesday at the United Nations climate summit in Poland,
the report puts a damper on hopes that emissions might soon start
decreasing, as they must if catastrophic climate change is to be
averted.
Where
are all these new emissions coming from? An increase in coal use
around the world, notably China, is partly to blame. But in the
United States and Europe—the second- and third-largest emitters in
the world, respectively—automobiles are among the leading culprits.
“We thought oil use had peaked in the U.S. and Europe 15 years
ago,” one of the study’s authors, Rob Jackson, told The New York
Times. “The cheap gasoline prices, bigger cars and people driving
more miles are boosting oil use at rates that none of us expected.”
Transportation
recently became the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the
United States.Rhodium Group
Cars
are becoming as big of a threat to the climate as coal-fired power.
The transportation sector is now the largest source of carbon dioxide
emissions in the United States, and has been for two years. European
countries are seeing similar patterns.
As
I wrote in August, the only way to achieve the necessary global
reductions in emissions, and therefore reduce climate change, is to
reduce emissions from gas-powered automobiles. Governments could
require carmakers to improve fuel efficiency (though President Donald
Trump recently announced plans to roll back such requirements in the
United States). They could invest in infrastructure for electric
cars. And cities and towns could improve their public transportation
systems. But the only sure solution, right now, is for the world to
drive less.
These are important figures from this week that should be widely shared. Global CO₂ emissions continue to rise...
+ @gcarbonproject: http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/
+ Summary: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2018-increasing-at-fastest-rate-for-seven-years …
+ Published Report: https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/2141/2018/
+ More Graphics: http://folk.uio.no/roberan/GCB2018.shtml …
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