mousepad wrote:I'm wondering what you think should be done. Your graph not only shows oil, but coal and gas, too. All need to be reduced, significantly and fast. I give kudos to people for trying. But personally I think there's nothing that can or will be done as our standard of living directly depends on those 3 fuels. And luckily there's nothing we need to do either, because mamma nature will step in and take care of it for us.
I agree with you 100% Mousepad.
I think that ship has already sailed. I think the planet is already blowing through tipping points and is now on an unstoppable path towards really extreme global warming.
IMHO the scientists did a god job warning the world about global warming, and the UN did a good job setting up the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change way back in 1992----32 years ago-----to craft a UN treaty to reduce global CO2 emissions.
The problems arose when the politicians got involved. International treaties require buy-in by world leaders, and the politicians failed to do their job.
When the first UN international climate treaty was negotiated in Kyoto Al Gore supported the Chinese in their demands that China not be restricted in the amount of CO2 they could produce. And since then Chinese CO2 emissions have exploded to the point that they are about three times greater than USA emissions now, and still growing rapidly.
Then Obama personally went to China and India before the Paris accords and signed agreements guaranteeing China and India more time to emit unlimited amounts of CO2. And in the Paris Accords themselves, there are no restrictions on their emissions or on anybody else's emissions.....it's all voluntary.
The result is predictable....CO2 emissions continue to grow rapidly in India and China and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increases and global warming goes up and up.
Obama must have known this would happen when he supported unlimited CO2 emissions for China and India----one can only assume Obama either didn't understand that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions or he didn't give a flying #$%$ about climate change or he was getting a cut of the millions of dollars China was paying to Hunter and Joe Biden.
I don't see any way to fix things until the Paris Accords are replaced with a new UN climate treaty that actually requires global CO2 emission reductions, which was the original plan of the UNFCCC back in 1992.
Even if we get to peak oil by the end of the 2020s, as I expect, it won't stop CO2 emissions because China and India are building more and more coal-fired power plants every year.
China is by far the largest CO2 producer on earth because they are building so many coal-fired electrical power plants.Cheers!