Wednesday, March 07, 2007

U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.

The Business-as-usual policy will result in emissions growing 11 percent in 2012 from 2002. In the previous decade, emissions grew at a rate of 11.6 percent, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The report also contains sections describing growing risks to water supplies, coasts and ecosystems around the United States from the anticipated temperature and precipitation changes driven by the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. NOT good.

Source: New York Times

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The most striking thing about this is that it proves just how stupid they who have all the money are.

Do they think that they can live in some kind of force-field that will keep the pollution out of THEIR environment?