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cilla4progress

(24,772 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 11:00 AM Jan 2019

Clear and present danger

Q.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018 — and it couldn’t happen at a worse time
https://wapo.st/2Fd4FM3


US emissions rose 3.4% due in part to trump admin policies. So many here across the US are reporting no winter, including me.

If for NO other reason he must go. He is a murderer.

(Snip):

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4?percent in 2018, according to new research — a jarring increase that comes as scientists say the world needs to be aggressively cutting its emissions to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change.

The findings, published Tuesday by the independent economic research firm Rhodium Group, mean that the United States now has a diminishing chance of meeting its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to dramatically reduce its emissions by 2025.

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