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US emissions are falling. Economy-wide or just power? Just Power. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] hypna 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It sorta looks to me like if you stacked those graphs they'd still be going down.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The total is going down, but it's doing so because electric generation emissions went down a lot while other sources didn't change much. We need to actually address emissions from transport, industry, and buildings in a meaningful way, not just electric generation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The total CO2 emissions of the US, even adjusted for trade, are going down since 2007-2008.

Also the only other period when the CO2 emissions of the US went down was after 1929 and 1975.

onl production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep, but it's caused by shifting off of coal for electric generation, substituting gas and to a lesser extent, renewables.

We still need to adequately tackle the rest of the places fossil fuels are used