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[oneoff]

oneoff Reply posted Mar 22, 2016 8:48
Some of you guys and gals should someday ponder if you really want to live in todays whole world; or


your choice is zero tolerance; everything you eat drink and breathe is totally sterile; you make no contact with any sick or potentially sick person and you still get to inflict your chosen lifestyle and personal views and beliefs on absolutely everyone else.

Because the world always will be filled with some danger; you're mortal like anyone else and there are millions of different ways to hurt yourself and others.

Its all a matter of being relatively safe; practicality; avoiding in a sensible (but not absolute way);and a good measure of tolerance and keeping hypocricy to a minimum.

If you need fossils fuels then quit lobbying and making it difficult for pipelines to be impossible to build. As long as there is gravity; circumstances dictate that the odd rail car is going to get loose or fall off the rails.

Lead, follow or get out of the way. Your demonstration of being negative is multiple times worse than the blame attributed to those who have wrecked havoc on Mother Nature
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oneoff Reply posted Mar 22, 2016 8:57
And we had better build more pipelines to replace those that have run their lifespan.

And we still desperately need fossil fuels because we just aren't ready to make any wholesale switchover to any other source.

And I see very few examples of environmentalists; or politicians who are currently doing any where near what will be required through their ill conceived carbon tax (etc.) initiatives.

One should have already expected to see just how they have changed their lifestyles.

Does anyone believe that those persons would be the first to do anything other than eat burgers and chicken at A&W; hop on jet planes for junkets and vacations and plan for 9 billion people living lifestyles that deteriorate.

[dalek]

One of the great problems facing Western culture is the lack of any kind of perspective when it comes to risk. And Ebola. Can't forget Ebola

[Flatlander]

Off, it's a tax, a transfer of wealth, it has little to do with the stated problems. It comes with all the regular goodies, feel good about the cause of the day, govt largesse for those necessary to sustain your power, etc. I had a guy trying to tell me how the drop in oil and resulting demise of the industry was no different today than the whale oil/blubber price melt down was back in the day. A few problems with all of this that do not seem to ever to addressed. There is not a viable option for replacing the internal combustion engine at this time. How do I keep my family warm for six months of the year? To the people that promote these taxes on prosperity-put your efforts to the next big thing in energy first so there is choice. There needs to be a carrot for the stick to work.

[oneoff]

I'm going to it as leave general statements. It remains up to each of those affected to figure out what the repercussions will be on the country at large.

So far most people only seem concerned about today and themselves alone.

[chuckChuck]

Decoupling of global emissions and economic growth confirmed

IEA analysis shows energy-related emissions of CO2 stalled for the second year in a row as renewable energy surged

16 March 2016 Paris

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) – the largest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions – stayed flat for the second year in a row, according to analysis of preliminary data for 2015 released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

“The new figures confirm last year’s surprising but welcome news: we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. “Coming just a few months after the landmark COP21 agreement in Paris, this is yet another boost to the global fight against climate change.”

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Global emissions of carbon dioxide stood at 32.1 billion tonnes in 2015, having remained essentially flat since 2013. The IEA preliminary data suggest that electricity generated by renewables played a critical role, having accounted for around 90% of new electricity generation in 2015; wind alone produced more than half of new electricity generation. In parallel, the global economy continued to grow by more than 3%, offering further evidence that the link between economic growth and emissions growth is weakening.

In the more than 40 years in which the IEA has been providing information on CO2emissions, there have been only four periods in which emissions stood still or fell compared to the previous year. Three of those – the early 1980s, 1992 and 2009 – were associated with global economic weakness. But the recent stall in emissions comes amid economic expansion: according to the International Monetary Fund, global GDP grew by 3.4% in 2014 and 3.1% in 2015.

The two largest emitters, China and the United States, both registered a decline in energy-related CO2 in 2015. In China, emissions declined by 1.5%, as coal use dropped for the second year in a row. The economic restructuring towards less energy-intensive industries and the government’s efforts to decarbonise electricity generation pushed coal use down. In 2015, coal generated less than 70% of Chinese electricity, ten percentage points less than four years ago (in 2011). Over the same period low-carbon sources jumped from 19% to 28%, with hydro and wind accounting for most of the increase. In the United States, emissions declined by 2%, as a large switch from coal to natural gas use in electricity generation took place.

The decline observed in the two major emitters was offset by increasing emissions in most other Asian developing economies and the Middle East, and also a moderate increase in Europe.

More details on the data and analysis will be included in a World Energy Outlook special report on energy and air quality that will be released at the end of June. The report will go beyond CO2 emissions and will provide a first in-depth analysis of the role the energy sector plays in air pollution, a crucial policy issue that today results in 7 million premature deaths a year. The report will provide the outlook for emissions and their impact on health, and provide policy makers with strategies to mitigate energy-related air pollution in the short and long term.

To download annual energy-related CO2 emissions data, click here.

To read last year's announcement about CO2 emissions, click here.



About the IEA

The International Energy Agency is an autonomous organisation that works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 29 member countries and beyond. Founded in response to the 1973/4 oil crisis, the IEA’s initial role was to help countries co-ordinate a collective response to major disruptions in oil supply. While this remains a key aspect of its work, the IEA has evolved and expanded. It is at the heart of global dialogue on energy, providing authoritative research, statistics, analysis and recommendations.

[blackpowder]

We can ridicule this all we want. But a thought occured to me.
Arent our field sprayers in season as visible as the stacks at a power plant? Perception changes over time. Mistrust and in your face visuals reinforced by someones agenda. The publics awareness of the facts in either case sadly lacking. Ignore them long enough and see what happens??

[burnt]

Our Liberal Ontario provincial government is loaded with very smart people who are determined to eliminate chemicals and large-scale agricultural production. In other words, they are against modern farming techniques that have provided us with the largest, safest and most affordable food supplies of all times!

Are there risks? Of course there are!

But when weighed against the multitudinous risks that have threatened humanity over the ages, they could be considered negligible.

My cousin's farmer's market food booth was being threatened with shutdown by a health inspector because his freezer was one degree warmer than the rule book stipulated - -17 instead of -18C.

He told her that maybe she needed to go hungry for a while to cure her pickiness. She said you can't talk to me like that. He said I just did.

Just an example of what's wrong in this world. And cousin Stevie is right.

[oneoff]

For those of the mindset that Alberta's future and that of Sask and North Dakota; for example; never did account for much at any time (past present or future).....little thought need be given to facts like "there's not much going on in Estevan" according to the owner of the landmark closed Derrick Motor Inn and bar.

And the writing is still on the wall for what has been labelled dirty coal and dirty oil and is now being extended into all fossil fuels; and conventional agriculture that sustain the worlds food requirements.

The carnage that has already happened to man camps and hotels and cities like Estevan and Williston.

And for those who would look a little deeper that's what must happen to a provinces plan (or a states plan) when one by one people lose a job; or income that was counted on is lost and then a mortgaged house is sold for what it will fetch and the financial institution then goes into foreclosure mode on businesses and toys and people must move to earn a living etc.

But as I have been reminded; not all people are so lucky or able to store grain or survive amongst changes that have been decided by leaders to occur; and its absolutely selfish and to the detriment of a community to survive and certainly not to prosper. .