The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of scientists reported.
The increase was reported early Tuesday at international climate talks, where global officials are trying to cut emissions by 43% by 2030. Instead, carbon pollution keeps rising, with 36.8 billion metric tons poured into the air in 2023, twice the annual amount of 40 years ago, according to Global Carbon Project, a group of international scientists who produce the gold standard of emissions counting.
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Outside of India and China, the rest of the world’s fossil fuel emissions went down by 419 million metric tons, led by Europe’s 205 million metric ton drop and a decrease of 154 million metric tons in the United States.
Europe’s 8% decrease was across the board with reduced emissions in coal, oil, gas and cement emissions, the report said. The U.S. decrease was almost entirely in coal, with slight increases in oil and gas emissions.
Ah yes, the three most populous countries, India, China, and aviation.
I feel like that’s a quiet way to say “Billionaires flying their fucking private jet everywhere.”
All flying, not just private jets. Private jets emit an enormous amount of co2 per person, but only about 4% of aviation emissions overall.
But the top 15% of flyers do fly 70% of the fights, so there’s still a big gap there. But not only billionaires, but millionaires, executives, and people going on business trips too.
Sorry bro, you’re not allowed to admit millionaires might also be part of the problem.
Well at least aviation serves some kind of purpose. I hate cruise ships much more, eating up huge amounts of fuel and releasing tons of pollution simply to ferry old folk around. They usually don’t go all that far and generally go in circles. It’s among the most useless and wasteful things people ever invented. Right up there with things like crypto currency, nfts and such.
Just think about the amount of fuel one plane uses, then go look at flightradar24.com
India, China, and the rest of the world.
Fuckin Aviators
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The increase was reported early Tuesday at international climate talks, where global officials are trying to cut emissions by 43% by 2030.
Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is “just possible’’ but only barely and with massive emission cuts, said Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Jim Skea.
If China and India were excluded from the count, world carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacturing would have dropped, Friedlingstein said.
The world in 2023 increased its annual emissions by 398 million metric tons, but it was in three places: China, India and the skies.
Last year the world’s carbon emissions increased but dropped in China, which was still affected by a second wave of pandemic restrictions.
This year, China’s 4% jump in emissions is similar to the post-pandemic recovery other parts of the world had in 2022, Friedlingstein said.
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It’s almost like when you move your manufacturing to other countries, you get to reduce your own carbon footprint and get to pat yourself on your backs.
