THE Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Thread Pt. 7 : Environment, Weather & Climate - Page 24 - Peak Oil News and Message Boards
mousepad wrote: So the recent trend has been 10 ppmv ever 4.5 years. Why isn't the increase accelerating year after year? Arent' we burning tons of more fossil fuels than 20 years ago? As is often noted, its complicated. While most scientists believe we are emitting CO2 at a much greater rate than 20 years ago and we have a bunch of items like China and India building hundreds of new coal fired generating plants we also have to opposite drive with a large number of North American coal burning plants switching to burning Natural Gas because in many markets it is cheaper than shipping in coal a...