Subject:  Speaking of absolute nonsense. Why don't the candidates discuss the most important issues? |
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Date Posted: Sat, January 19, 2008 8:29:10
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's message, "Re: That is absolute nonsense! You don't know anything about Romney. So drop the smear crap and quit" on Sat, January 19, 2008 7:57:22
Why don't Romney and the others address this important matter? It seems that Al Gore, who is NOT running, is the only one who gives a crap about this.
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per capita has been dropping worldwide since the 1980s. And further, population (those “capita”) isn’t increasing at nearly the rate projected a quarter-century ago. In 1980, the United Nations predicted a global population of 15 billion in 2050. Their most recent estimate is down to nine billion, a 40% reduction.
To triple from the 280ppm background by 2054, carbon dioxide must increase at 1.65% per year.
But, as companies compete to produce more efficient technologies, the rate of increase has remained much smaller than that, and has changed very little. Over the entire period for which we have accurate records (beginning in 1958), the increase has fluctuated between a mere 0.4% per year and a mere 0.45%.
The gloomy predictions are based upon a naïve assumption that this percentage must quadruple, despite its decades of constancy, because of both increased population and the oft-repeated saw that “the world desires an American lifestyle.”
Well, population grew at only 60% of the rate it was supposed to. And, in fact, the world did adopt that American lifestyle—which means less and less use of energy per capita or per dollar economic output. Americans now produce a constant dollar’s worth of GDP with only 60% of the energy we used a mere quarter-century ago. And the world is either buying or emulating our more efficient power-production technologies. All of these increases in efficiency occurred despite our current crush on gas-hog SUVs.
There is simply no way these trends are going to suddenly reverse. Efficient electrical technologies are flooding the world, not to fight global warming, but because people want cheap energy.
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