Comments on: Global CO2 Emissions Reach Record-High, Driven by Fossil Fuel Use in Rapidly Industrializing Nations

By: Thursday, May 31st » TckTckTck | the Global Campaign for Climate Action

Thursday, May 31st » TckTckTck | the Global Campaign for Climate Action — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:56:18 +0000

[…] while gas generation has increased by 38% in the last 12 months. That shift was a key driver for US emissions decreasing 1.7% in 2011. Meanwhile, in Europe, relatively high natural gas prices combined with a low carbon cost […]

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:54:00 +0000

forest fires: and increasingly from severe drought…

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:52:00 +0000

yeah, wish they had done that…

but i guess that wouldn’t boost their GDP the same way…

By: Akbweb2

Akbweb2 — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:33:00 +0000

I believe it’s far less– human produced CO2 emissions are far higher than that from volcanic activity…http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/2007/07_02_15.html

CO2 from forest fires has been estimated to be 20% of total; thing is most of those are due to human activity…deforestation to make way for agricultural and commercial development…http://trendsupdates.com/forest-fires-cause-20-of-co2-emissions/

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Lots of developing countries are installing renewable energy rather than putting themselves in positions where they will have to purchase fossil fuels far into the future.

Just like the developing world leapfrogged over landline phones straight to cell phones, they are seeing the sense in going straight to renewable energy.

China has relied on a lot of coal to get their economy going, but they have announced that they will cap the amount of coal that can be burned and at the same time are installing massive amounts of wind and solar.

Forest fires are basically carbon neutral. The carbon turned into CO2 during the fire was already above ground and as the forest grows that amount of CO2 will be used by the trees. Actually it’s likely that forest fires are carbon negative is the forest is allowed to regrow. Trees often have as much mass below ground in their root systems as they have above ground. That’s carbon re-sequestered.

Volcanoes. Random events. The Earth was pretty much in balance, CO2 wise, before we screwed things up.

According to Skeptical Science humans cause about 100x as much CO2 to be released as do volcanoes.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming.htm

(Great site. Suggest doing some reading there.)

By: James Stork

James Stork — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:14:00 +0000

I agree that mankind is producing more carbon dioxide than ever. How can we deny developing nations their per capita production of carbon dioxide? What were the GHG emissions of recent volcanic activity and forest fires? Is it more than mankind?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:05:00 +0000

If only China had done demand side support and install 90-95% of the PV panels in China instead of exporting them. We wouldn’t have a trade war pending and it’s CO2/GDP would have drop a lot more.

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Fri, 25 May 2012 12:29:57 +0000

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