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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that current forecasts call for the U.S. electric power sector to meet the 2020 and 2025 CO2 reduction requirements in the Paris Agreement—even though the U.S. has announced its withdrawal—and also meet the 2030 CO2 reduction requirements contemplated by the Clean Power Plan—even though it has been repealed.
Despite the absence of a national policy aimed at reducing CO2 emissions, the U.S. is ahead of schedule to meet the short-term and mid-term goals of both the Paris Agreement and the Clean Power Plan, according to a recent viewpoint article published in Environmental Science & Technology.
"A year ago, it looked like our ability to meet these larger carbon reduction targets would have required more proactive steps, such as new regulation or new incentive programs," said Jeffrey Anderson, lead author of the paper and Ph.D. candidate of Engineering & Public Policy (EPP). "However, as renewable energy costs have fallen and are projected to continue decreasing even further, we are now well on the path to achieving even the 2030 goals in the Clean Power Plan."
Based on an analysis of projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, these carbon reductions will be met without any additional legislative or regulatory activity, said David Rode, faculty of CMU's Electricity Industry Center. The team also included EPP professors Haibo Zhai and Paul Fischbeck, also a professor of Social & Decision Sciences.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Sunday November 10 2019, @12:31PM
> The critical juncture claim has been made frequently for more than 40 years. It was a fraud then; it's a fraud now.
Longer than that, I've seen newspaper clippings from the 1920s saying that climate disaster is 20 years away unless more taxes and government come into being to restrict what people do.
Seems the chicken-littles have been at it for almost as long as the modern industrial era has existed. Only difference now is that global communications are so cheap and easy that the messages can be blasted worldwide instantly, coupled with what seems to have been a general reduction in the world populations ability to reason and think for themselves.
The result is the current behaviour from environmentalists that looks more and more like a religious cult, and less like anything based in proper science. Most politicians are more than happy to support the cause, as it means far more power, money and control for them over the population, and they never shy away from that.