One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego found.
“Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record, and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press release. “Now we are finding that atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever.”
And not just the US. The whole western world effectively runs on Chinese coal.
And when China get around to outsourcing it all to Africa which is already on the way to being China’s China, we’ll still be running it all on fossil fuels.
You can try taxing everything based on its ecological footprint, sanctions on non-complying countries, etc, but all that will mean in the long term is prices will go up, people will feel poorer, and you’ll be voted out in favour of somebody who doesn’t give a shit.
That’s true. I’m only saying that when you add the carbon emitted by US industry in China to the total of domestic emissions, the US is the world’s leading contributor.
It’s time we stop allowing US industry to point the finger at China by parroting that falsity. The US could produce domestically and responsibly, or outsource to a climate responsible nation, while consumers become more mindful of offending products. That won’t happen as long as we continue to blame the nation making our products for making our products.