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Starting in 2007, carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. began dropping off and by 2013 had been cut by 11 percent.
Many have attributed the drop in CO2 to the switch from coal to natural gas to generate electricity, as natural gas production in the U.S. ramped up thanks to new fracking technologies. Even TreeHugger reported on a Harvard study that suggested a correlation between lower gas prices and a drop in CO2.
But a new study from researchers at the University of Maryland suggests that the economic recession was a bigger driver in the drop in carbon emissions. The study, published in Nature Communications, compares various factors that contributed to the decreased emissions.
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The researchers found that the sharpest decline in CO2 happened during the worst of the recession, between 2007 and 2009. During that time, they calculate that 83 percent of the decrease is due to economic factors like consumption and production. As the economy started to recover after 2009, emission crept back up.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday July 23 2015, @09:27PM
So. This is saying that the way to cut CO2 is to stop fracking and start another major recession?
Well, good luck with that. You might get people to agree with restricting fracking, but I think proposing a repeat of 2008 is gonna be a hard sell.
(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday July 23 2015, @10:13PM
You need to get only a handful of people to agree, just the banksters would suffice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2015, @11:07PM
You need to get only a handful of people to agree, just the banksters would suffice.
Look, gold plated shark tanks do not pay for themselves. They just can not have 1 less of them...