Report: Global Warming Pollution Has Doubled in 28 States Since 1960
Report: Global Warming Pollution Has Doubled in 28 States Since 1960
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group released an analysis of government data today showing that 28 states more than doubled their carbon dioxide emissions between 1960 and 2001.
One major culprit of the spike in emissions: Increased combustion of oil to fuel our cars and trucks, which accounted for 40% of the total rise. “Oil emissions from the transportation sector soared over the period due to a dramatic rise in vehicle travel and the stagnating fuel efficiency of vehicles, while oil emissions from every other sector peaked in the 1970s”:
Read the full report HERE. Also today, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) released the Safe Climate Act, which sets strict targets to significantly reduce global warming pollution.
The U.S. PIRG report underscores the need for immediate action to avoid a global climate crisis. As James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said last December: “The Earth’s climate is nearing, but has not passed, a tipping point, beyond which it will be impossible to avoid climate change with far ranging undesirable consequences.” These consequences, he said, would “constitute practically a different planet” and include sea level rise, heat waves, drought, more intense hurricanes, decreased crop yields, and water scarcity.
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My suggestion; buy land in Alaska while its cheap. preferably a bit inland, but close enough to be oceanfront in a few years.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:20 pmOr you could take it to “the next level” -
http://www.lunarregistry.com/?source=gmoon
June 20th, 2006 at 3:28 pmAnyone who claims contrary to the thread MUST post links to valid scientific research!
That said…
This summer is yet another type of bug I have never seen before. I have heard they are talking about changing my climate zonefrom sub-tropical to tropical because palm trees and banana trees can now survive our winters…
Anyway, the bug is this little white fleck that looks like a piece of lint. No clue what it is, but it likes my tomato plants and the lady bugs aren’t eating them….
Don’t tell me it’s not getting hot in here…
June 20th, 2006 at 3:30 pmI know this information made me go buy 1 more rose bush at lunch. Just doing my part to counter the problems my V-8 SUV do to the planet.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:31 pmAnyone who claims contrary to the thread MUST post links to valid scientific research!
Yes, we’re watching. And that goes for you paid trolls too:
http://www.cybersoc.com/2006/05/behind_netvocat.html
June 20th, 2006 at 3:37 pmI was listening to the Rachael Maddow show this morning (I do every once in a while to get a chuckle) and she had John Kerry (I was in Vietnam) on. He admitted to not seeing “An Inconvenient Truth” yet. I thought this was the number one movie? Why hasn’t he seen it yet?
June 20th, 2006 at 3:46 pmI know this information made me go buy 1 more rose bush at lunch. Just doing my part to counter the problems my V-8 SUV do to the planet.
Bullets are only about a dollar and cheaper than rose bushes. Do us a favor and put that SUV out of our misery.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:49 pmTheres many things everybody can do to help
Germany no lorries on the roads at weekends
Austria days of high CO2 no cars allowed in towns or cities
Greece free underground before 9am and after 4pm
switch your electric supply to windmills as I have http://www.good-energy.co.uk
My house now produces 0 CO2 emmisions
Europe has 35 million houses on green supply America has 1 Million on green supply we are far ahead of you here
Good Energy uses 100% renewable electricity. This will have generated zero grammes of carbon dioxide per kWh and zero grammes of high-level radio active waste.
Electricity generated from coal fired power stations will have generated 910 grammes of CO2 to produce 1kWh of electricity and natural gas will have produced 360 grammes of CO2 for each kWh.
It is stated that nuclear power produces zero grammes of CO2 but it will have produced 0.012 grammes of high-level radio active waste per kWh.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:50 pmMaybe Kerry hasn’t seen the movie yet, because unlike Bush he hasn’t taken 300+ days of vacation in the last 6 years.
What a loser you are Milborg. Are you just trying piss people off, or do you believe the crap you spew?
June 20th, 2006 at 3:50 pmThis sort of information really is an inconvenience to me.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:51 pmTheres many things everybody can do to help
There are also companies that do “carbon offsets” (although it’s probably more effective to ditch your SUV):
http://www.terrapass.com/
http://www.nativeenergy.com/
http://www.carbonfund.org/
June 20th, 2006 at 3:56 pm#11
I know I’m right. Am I pissing you off? Kerry hasn’t seen the movie because he is not a total moonbat like the rest of you. Doesn’t he still drive an SUV?
June 20th, 2006 at 3:59 pmMilbog: “He {Kerry} admitted to not seeing “An Inconvenient Truth†yet. I thought this was the number one movie? Why hasn’t he seen it yet?” - - Well, no, it isn’t and never was the #1 movie at the box office. The film has been in limited release and maybe Kerry has been busy doing the government’s business. Maybe he’s been wind-surfing. Who the hell cares, besides you, if he’s seen the film or the reasons why he hasn’t? At least Kerry knows it’s not a sci-fi film unlike most Righties.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:01 pmIt’s why we need more Pirates, damn global warming.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:02 pmI think Al Gore should run for President in ‘08 as the GW Candidate because that’s a cause even the entire globe can rally around. Spread the word! Make it happen.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:03 pmROFL
no your not pissing me off Milbog, but it looks like I might be getting to you. funny I know we don’t agree, but I am far more moderate then you. You seem to have a little bit of a god complex going. the “I know I am right”.
anyway I am going to go laugh at you a bit more. have a good afternoon.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:04 pmMil-
June 20th, 2006 at 4:04 pmMost of us who understand that global warming exists and what the consequences are (Like Kerry) don’t need to see it. It’s meant for people like you who need to be informed.
He is not a total moonbat like the rest of you
True to form. 2nd post in and already with the ad hominem attacks…
June 20th, 2006 at 4:05 pmIn all honestly, Global warming is a very bad problem IMO and we should be doing something about it. And no, I don’t drive a V8, only a V6
June 20th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI’m going to see an Inconvenient Truth tonight with my wife. It just came into a theater here this past week.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:12 pmGlobal warming is not even agreed upon by 100% of scientists at the present time. Like any scientific theory, we cannot believe in global warming until every person of knowledge is in total agreement. Besides, it was God who told us to use the Earth as we see fit, without limits or constraints. Any one who does not agree that the Earth is fine shall surely burn in the fires of Hades. Amen, and Amen.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:19 pmHermey,
Thanks for the “enlightenment”. Nice use of factual references.
Anyone who claims contrary to the thread MUST post links to valid scientific research!
Maybe YOU should start here- http://bible.com/
June 20th, 2006 at 4:23 pmBesides, it was God who told us to use the Earth as we see fit,
Comment by Herman B. Hayes — June 20, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
Only 33% of the world believes in your god. That puts you in the minority.
Actually, your Jesus told you to be good sewards of the Earth… not to abuse it.
And, all reputable scientists ARE on board with Global Warming. I suggest you read something by any one of them.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:37 pmComment by Herman B. Hayes
1) It is not about believing. It is common sense. Grab a newspaper from Europe. Stop eating at McDonald´s.
2)what is a person of knowledge? You mean like Aristotele´s followers when Copernicus and Galileo said the Earth moved around the sun and not the opposite? How much time did Catholic religion conceded that it was wrong and Galileo was right? 300 years? Do we have that much time about this issue? Dont be so clumsy.
He said that to you personally or in a bar in Goa? Please tell us, because us, you know the atheists that will go to hell for that idea, dont buy that crap about your god. Why would us have to support that kind of stupid, fanatic argument in a world that belongs to EVERYBODY?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pmGlobal warming IS agreed upon by 100% of scientists that are not paid by the oil lobby. You twit. We need to wait until every scientist is in absolute agreement on a proven, scientific fact, yet you go spouting off about what God said.
Where’s your proof for what God said you moron?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:42 pmI was assuming #23 was a huge sarcastic bit. A bit to colbert-esk. Besides, if you take it that way its funnier then getting in a tizzy about it.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:44 pmMr. Hayes has a good plan for the polar bears and the Gitmo detainees:
http://cfav.blogspot.com/2005/06/alaska-akbar.html
June 20th, 2006 at 4:48 pmI don’t use my A/C much anymore. I keep the windows open and have a fan on. I’m glad that the weather in my area has actually been much cooler than I’d have thought in recent days. But days like yesterday keep me very worried. But I’m happy to know that as small as what I’m doing is - I’m still helping.
We should encourage more people to use less A/C because using only a fan really isn’t as bad as you’d think.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pmIf so many people think global warming is bad, why doesn’t a private company produce a non oil based fuel already? Honestly I want to know because it seems like there is all kinds of support reading these blogs.
I know the Oil companies “say” they are working on different fuels, but who knows.
Please don’t answer “because the government hasn’t provided the research funds”. If the government has to provide the funds, that means that other fuels are not profitable without government assistance. Any such program will fail.
I honestly believe someone out there is working on this billion+ dollar idea. Who wants to be the next Bill Gates?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:59 pmJerad,
Somebody did, then mysteriously died of a “heart attack” before he finished.
http://www.waterfuelcell.org/
June 20th, 2006 at 5:04 pmIf so many people think global warming is bad, why doesn’t a private company produce a non oil based fuel already?
Some of it has to do with energy subsidies:
http://www.heatisonline.org/ contentserver/ objecthandlers/ index.cfm?id=4267&method=full
June 20th, 2006 at 5:07 pmHow much does the aviation sector contribute? Planes are crisscrossing the sky at all hours of the day here in “the middle of nowhere”. Those things weigh how many tons? And they go roaring off into the sky and fly at 550 MPH?? They’ve got to be using a LOT of fuel.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:09 pm#34 Ask Al Gore. He flys all over the world wasting tons of fossil fuels. I am sure he know the exact answer.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:26 pmAsk Al Gore. He flys all over the world wasting tons of fossil fuels.
He bought carbon offsets for that. See my comment #13.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:29 pmThis thread should have the Guy from Norway on here > he claims to know a lot about global warming and polution emissions, but he is on the minimum wage thread instead?!
June 20th, 2006 at 5:29 pm#35 Yeah, he should travel on horseback everywhere just to prove you the opposite.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:30 pmVel,
June 20th, 2006 at 5:30 pmYou could ask Bush since he and about only 10 others waste God knows how much fuel on a friggin’ 747, with 4 huge turbofans, but, he’s to busy watching Barney on his flat panel…
It’s really flimsy that the right attacks the left in the context of global warming issues, for the left’s use of the only means of getting across the ocean in a reasonable amount of time. Or attacking the left for using electricity, or fossil fuels. These are the current means to meet objectives a-wipe. Like a person could use a gun to keep the peace, or use a gun to start a war. It’s how its used. Al Gore uses a plane and fossil fuels toward the objective to get off of oil.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:37 pmJay,
Think he’s had enough of being proven wrong on this subject… :)
June 20th, 2006 at 5:50 pmIt boggles the mind someone still quotes archaeic “scripture” to give reason for anything. “Use the earth as we see fit” God said this. A storybook character telling us what we should do? Then the world is FLAT and is only 4,000 years old, the sun and planets orbit around earth and the bicycle is a device of the Devil because your charlitans and poohbas at the Vatican say so. Dumb.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:54 pmI’ll continue to ride my bicycle, though it be a “device of the Devil”, (done so the past 25 years to work saving over 10,000 gallons of gas and $350,000), I’ll continue knowing the world is round and orbits the sun. Keep god out of our SCIENCE! Kill all SUV’s!
Herman B. has a great sarcastic wit. He is not serious folks.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:04 pmIts not called pollution its called Life
And china old coal fire stations are producing huge carbon dioxide clouds which travel the guld stream and settle in the West coast of America.
This causes aszma, cancer and other helath problems. But hey if you want to call it “life” instead of “pollution” then thats what americans want I guess.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:13 pmUnbelieveble,
Sounds like you have “white flies” they invaded AZ several years ago, came from the South. I guess you are more north, just getting them now?
June 20th, 2006 at 6:14 pmit was God who told us to use the Earth as we see fit, without limits or constraints. Any one who does not agree that the Earth is fine shall surely burn in the fires of Hades. Amen, and Amen.
Comment by Herman B. Hayes — June 20, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
By their words they are known
ALGIE ABRAMS
GUEST COLUMNIST
In Thomas Jefferson’s bible, “The Life and Moral of Jesus Christ,” he abstracted the words of Jesus into a code of morals for ordinary living, removing any text regarding religious dogmas and supernatural beliefs and events. Jefferson called those who adopted Jesus’ code of morals “Christians” and those who adopted the dogma and supernatural surrounding Jesus, “Anti-Christians”; belief in one mutually excludes the other.
In the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush said, “When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.” Jefferson writes, “His (Christ’s) character & doctrines have received greater injury from those who pretend to be his special disciples.”
During the 2004 election, the Rev. Pat Robertson said, “I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe that I’m hearing from the Lord it’s going to be like a blowout election of 2004.” But, Jefferson said, “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own”.
When asked if Osama bin Laden could go to heaven, the Rev. Jerry Falwell said, “Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him and then he must be executed.” Recently, Robertson said, “But if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him (Chavez), I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.”
But Jesus said, “Is it not written, my house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves … Shame on you politicians and preachers, hypocrites!”
When speaking with a foreign ambassador, Bush said, “God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam.” But, Jesus said, “Do not resist evil-doers … whosoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn your left one to him … Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you … .”
Falwell said, “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” When the Rev. Ken Hutcherson of Redmond finds a gay parishioner unable to change, he says, “You kick them out.” But Jesus said, “Judge not! … Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.”
Recently Bush said, “It is fitting that we have a National Prayer Breakfast. It is the right thing to do, because this is a nation of prayer. I know, from firsthand knowledge, that this is a nation of prayer.” But Jesus said, “Don’t pray like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen. … But pray in secret, shut your door and be private.”
It’s astounding that of all the problems that peril all our lives on this planet, Bush also recently said, “Our priorities is (sic) our faith.”
Really? This does not square with reality. “Man once surrendering his reason,” wrote Jefferson, “like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.”
Christians and Anti-Christians. You shall know them by their words.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:21 pmSounds like you have “white flies†they invaded AZ several years ago, came from the South. I guess you are more north, just getting them now?
Comment by For Truth — June 20, 2006 @ 6:14 pm
They showed up about two weeks ago… Like all of a sudden and as if someone dusted the plants with thousands of them. They don’t seem to eat much. Yet. They have gotten a little bit bigger. But no wings. Not yet. I’ve wanted to spray with organic sulphur, but I have a couple cycles of lady bugs going on to eat the aphids and don’t want to disturb their eggs and larva.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:27 pmJesus said, “Don’t pray like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen. … But pray in secret, shut your door and be private.â€
Christians and Anti-Christians. You shall know them by their words.
Comment by madashell — June 20, 2006 @ 6:21 pm
Excellent post!
June 20th, 2006 at 6:31 pmJesus also said that you should simply bow down to the Republicans. Just think of us as a collective Caesar…now start rendering unto us, please.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:34 pmOK Unbelievable, can you give me a ballpark figure of where you are? I understand if you don’t. I am just trying to figure out where these white flys are going. And by your description, it seems they are indeed white flys.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:37 pmI’m in a suburb of Atlanta. Where are they from? We seem to have gotten a whole slew of new critters while I was living out west…
June 20th, 2006 at 6:54 pmUnbeleivable,
Here is some tips on dealing with them, if they are indeed white flies
June 20th, 2006 at 7:02 pmUnbelievable,
I think those white flies come from Mexico.
June 20th, 2006 at 7:09 pmIt’s all real, but industry keeps building coal plants and we keep buying from Wal*Mart like there’s no tomorrow.
But enough with the causes…Here’s THE ANSWER (Solution–the chief cause of problems according to ES)
http://www.vortexengine.ca
under_hog
June 20th, 2006 at 7:46 pmThanks For Truth,
I took a closer look at them and they look like tiny snow white crickets. They also seem to either be dead, or have shedded their skins and become something else. Strange. But thanks for your help.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:45 pmMaybe when the children of some of the “righties” get asthma for no reason they will start to believe that air pollution is bad!
June 21st, 2006 at 12:14 amAll right. Now I’m as liberal as they come, but that was a stupid study. 1960 to 2001? I’m actually suprised it’s only DOUBLED since then. My first reaction from seeing that headline was: “What, since Bush took office? Dammmn….” But 1960? They had to go back that far to have the “Double” work? Come on, being progressive, I can’t stand these kinds of “studies” from ANYONE. Particularly those I tend to identify with…in other words: Those who should know better.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:27 amRead Steve Lindzen regarding negative feedback effects of storms, iris effect in high clouds, lack of data supporting positive water vapor effects assummed in simulation and other large discrepencies. You can also read his critics, but his stuff is real.
June 21st, 2006 at 2:46 am# 58– It’s Richard Lindzen, not Steve Lindzen. And he’s discussed in this Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 05/ 23/ AR2006052301305_pf.html
And yes, he’s the real stuff, really the only one at this point with any real credentials on the skeptics side. He was one of the scientists who served on NAS study commissioned by Bush to study the climate change issue. The study begins:
http://www.heatisonline.org/ contentserver/ objecthandlers/ index.cfm?id=3713&method=full
June 21st, 2006 at 7:57 amWithout science and the contributions of scientists like James Hansen, this country, this world, would still be monkeying around in the stone age. Maybe some on the Right would prefer to turn back the clock to that more simpler time, to that more darker time, when ignorance and superstition and fear and quackery ruled the minds of men. A time where someone like Rush Limbaugh would be considered a peer of James Hansen, and Pat Robertson would be revered as a prophet. If the Right wants to construct a separate reality and fill it full of hot air and imaginary science, so be it. Let them believe in the past. Like the saying goes, the future belongs to those who have the faith to believe in it.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:04 amI read these posts and have to ask: Why do we continue to make global warming a political issue?
Clearly, with all the changes we are EXPERIENCING (has anyone noticed the changing weather patterns in your back yard in the last ten years?) - from receding glaciers to climate control - isn’t it time to assume responsibility and - at least - look at what each of us may be doing to contribute to this problem.
If we don’t take our heads out of the sand and - at least - consider that we are part of the problem, we are in denial. I believe that denial and the choice to remain unconscious is evil.
Let’s keep global warming what it is: a moral issue. Right or left, it affects us all.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:29 amTo the one saying that China burns a lot of carbon: China is taking now steps to reduce the contamination produced to a more ecological goal, a thing that the USA is renuent to do with all his power and hollier than thou attitude. And, the USA produces the 25% of the CO2 of the planet, having a 5% of the population, while China produces around a tenth of the USA CO2 outcome, with 4 times the population of the USA and a 25 of the population of the world. So guess who is a bigger polluter in every sense, absolutely and per capita(per person).
June 21st, 2006 at 9:01 amThis page shows the data on the emissions per country:
http://www.ucsusa.org/ global_warming/ science/ each-countrys-share-of-co2-emissions.html
June 21st, 2006 at 9:08 amI agree with Anne,
Look, I’m a climate scientist, and have been following this issue and frankly have been heart sick after being called ervery name in the book publically on the radio because of just educatijng people about global warming.
It’s worse than you think it is. You will see huge changes subtle at first unless you are north of about 50N lattitude…there you are already seeing the strange changes.
Unfortunately the power structure populatiions “generally” live in those ares where the changes are not quite occurring that fast, “the south” but that is about to change with advent of warmer SST’s sea surface temp’s on a dramatic rise, you southerners will also begin to see some nasty changes as well if you are not already…remember what I’m saying and soon you to will be a believer and I hope you remember this.
We are killing ourselves slowly and people are fighting about whther it exists. It completely blows your mind if you look at the paleo-climatology. CO2 388 parts per million and rising more rapidly every day…it’s scientific fact.
we need to stop driving hummer’s V-8’s V-6’s until we go to hybrid of better yet jump to the hydrogen economy. If you have kids or know other people who have kids you want to take action now woithout leadership from our current regime. Bypass the son of bitches in every way because this trumps any nuclear terrorist bombing…it’s even worse and no I’m not kidding.
Sincerely Roger Hill
June 21st, 2006 at 9:16 amWeathering Hieghts Consulting
UN weapons inspector Hans Blix:
http://www.mtv.com/ bands/ i/ iraq/ news_feature_031203/ index5.jhtml
(Sorry, MTV was the only place I could find the quote.)
June 21st, 2006 at 10:15 amHuffHoe Wannabes:
From the guy who created the hurricane forecasting models used by all climatologists
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ html/ nationworld/ 2003040068_warming05.html
THE SKY IS FALLING……..
June 21st, 2006 at 12:39 pm[…] ThinkProgress bring this to our attention: Report: Global Warming Pollution Has Doubled in 28 States Since 1960 […]
June 21st, 2006 at 2:42 pmFrom the guy who created the hurricane forecasting models used by all climatologists :
Gray’s crusade against global warming “hysteria” began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old-fashioned stuff based on direct observation.
Sounds like a “scientific” logic to me.
“Goody, let’s rely on old grandpa’s wisdom rather than science. Hell, use a divining rod, they’re real, right?”
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