So maybe we can achieve some goals without big government telling us what to do? If that were true it would threaten the agenda of the current administration to grow the government to a totalitarian regime where they control every aspect of people lives as in the "good old" totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe. So they are already taking countermeasuresThe key driver for the “shockingly good news” that CO2 emissions will probably fall this year to a two-decade low according to John is “the shale gas revolution, and the low-priced gas that it has made a reality, especially in the last 12 months. As of April, gas tied coal at 32% of the electric power generation market, nearly ending coal’s 100 year reign on top of electricity markets
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In my native Poland there is some press coverage on how Russians are bribing the EU high level officials to prohibit fracking so they can continue to maintain their key supplier status. What I am reading between the lines in the official responses sounding like "no need to ban fracking - yet", is that either the are calling for Russians to raise the stakes or they think they can get more in bribes for issuing permits to allow "safe and environmentally sound" fracking. Time will show how it works, the Russian government has excellent track record of bribery and blackmail, but there are several competing groups in EU as the central control has not solidified yet.The Obama administration will soon issue sweeping new environmental safety rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, setting a new standard that natural gas wells on all lands eventually could follow.
Either way I am not too excited about the falling CO2 levels.
According to some studies the increased human generated CO2 increased foliage in US by 13%. According to those studies and several ones you can google the increased CO2 is increasing foliage everywhere
http://www.science-news.eu/earth-scienc ... ster138789
Well, if the "greens" don't want the green plants on Earth, what does it make them?A new study published today in “Nature” by authors from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and the Goethe University Frankfurt suggests that large parts of Africa’s savannas may well be forests by 2100. The study suggests that fertilization by atmospheric carbon dioxide is forcing increases in tree cover throughout Africa. A switch from savanna to forest occurs once a critical threshold of CO2 concentration is exceeded, yet each site has its own critical threshold.
Brown shirts?