Merkel’s Green Shift (sic) Backfires as German Pollution Jumps

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2. German emissions down 25.5% since 1990, US emisions up 5%

But anti-science pro-nukes don't care about facts, they are too busy spinning faux outrage about German's pro-science anti-nuclear policies.

The article in the OP points out that Germany is doing even better than it promised under Kyoto:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-28/merkel-s-green-shift-backfires-as-german-pollution-jumps.html

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Germany has reduced its greenhouse gas output 25.5 percent since 1990, exceeding its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.

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The US never ratified Kyoto and increased emissions since 1990:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-eighteenyear-low

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Eighteen-Year Low

By Bill Sweet
Posted 7 Feb 2013 | 21:07 GMT

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At the end of last month, a comprehensive survey of U.S. energy trends by Bloomberg New Energy Finance found that U.S. carbon emissions are at their lowest in nearly 20 years, as reported in Britain's The Guardian newspaper and in the online publication EnergyMic, among other places. At about 5300 megatons CO2 equivalent in 2012, they are almost 13 percent lower than at their peak when the global financial crisis erupted four years ago, and barely more than 5 percent higher than in 1990--the baseline for cuts in the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States repudiated.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance explains the drop in U.S. emissions as follows: "The reductions in coal generation, ascendancy of gas, influx of renewables, expansion of CHP (combined heat and power) and other distributed power forms, adoption of demand-side efficiency technologies, rise of dispatchable demand response, and deployment of advanced vehicles are all contributing to the decline in carbon emissions from the energy sector (including transport), which peaked in 2007 at 6.02Gt …"

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