Taps Coogan – February 2nd, 2024
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Despite the endless climate apcoloypse-mongering, the ‘dirty’ little secret about global CO2 emissions is that they have been declining for years in most developed economies. Continued global emissions growth is now all about China and India, with China emitting more than essentially all developed economies combined and more than the US on a per-capita basis. Via Visegrad 24:
Just a reminder that China is emitting more CO2 than the entire developed world combined.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 10, 2024
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Via @CapitanBitcoin pic.twitter.com/iL26PhOwyE
For those keeping track, gross US CO2 emissions have dropped by roughly 25% since their peak and per capita emissions have dropped by roughly 35%.
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Remember back in the day when the USA’s dominance of energy use was taken as evidence of our enviable industrial might and clear victory in the ongoing Great Power competition?…ah, good times, good times.