(01-26-2017, 05:46 PM)eppie Wrote:Doing, no. What they are doing is catching up to our consumption. Buying automobiles, building coal fired plants, routing power lines to their populace. The US and Europe consumer portion per person is higher, but declining.(01-26-2017, 02:55 PM)kandrathe Wrote: No matter how green we get now, it's moot if greater Asia continues its meteoric increases in burning fossil fuels.
Well, greater asia is doing a much better job than countries like the US, canada, australia and the Netherlands....yes they have more people of course but per person they are not even close to what we polute.
On a 12-month rolling total basis, electric power sector CO2 emissions are now regularly below transportation sector CO2 emissions for the first time since the late 1970s.
Peak energy consumption is here
Quote:More than 98% of serious scientist agree. The 2% that don't usually have a hidden agenda. Most of those people are sponsored by big oil or coal.This is more of a political statement, as is the funding of climate scientists. The whole kit is rife with confirmation bias. Science, as you know, is the pursuit of truth, even when it runs contrary to your hypothesis. Is it not disengenuous to imply the scientists funded by private industry are in the pocket, but those funded by the opposition are not? Are not scientists and the pursuit of truth equally incorruptible, or as you infer corruptible?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmicha...e-science/
I'm not a climate change skeptic. I am a climate scientist skeptic. I have little trust of this incestuous mob of witch burners. If they were truly scientists, they would fully embrace the contrary views, and the opportunity to disprove them with the power of science. But, the whole mess is more reminiscent of the inquisition out to purify the faithful.