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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (765268)	1/23/2014 1:10:45 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573689

Hi Wharf Rat; Re: "Their goal is to reduce GHGs by 40% below 1990 levels in the next 16 years. What's not to like? "; Ignoring the fact that Europe won't come anything close to that, everyone knows that CO2 is a global gas. When you insist on talking about specific countries you're doing what's known as "cherry picking". The only important measurement is "total amount of CO2 put into the air" and that's a number that not only keeps going up, but has been accelerating since 2000: The 1990 planet-wide levels of CO2 production were about 22 billion tonnes. In 2012 it's about 35 billion tonnes. That's an increase of 59% in just 22 years or about 2.1% per year. Now I have no doubt that we'll quit dumping CO2 into the atmosphere someday but that will be after we've burned all the coal, shale, methane hydrates and oil that industry can dig up pretty much planet-wide. As for now, the amounts keep increasing. And yet, LOL, temperatures are in a pause. -- Carl