The good news: if
industrial emissions decline in coming decades, as most projections say, fine - particle pollution will go down even if fertilizer use doubles as expected.
Not exact matches
Russia and Japan are two
industrial countries that did not see an overall
decline in carbon
emissions over the past five years.
After a rare
decline in 2009 due to the financial crisis, global
emissions surged by a whopping 5.9 percent in 2010 — the largest absolute increase since the
Industrial Revolution.24
A study this January showed that global
industrial nitrogen oxide
emissions declined from 2005 to 2014, even as farm
emissions boomed.
According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting
emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a
decline in demand for electricity from commercial and
industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»
The UN's IPCC claim that large modern consumer /
industrial CO2
emissions are causing maximum temperatures to increase across the globe proves to be without any empirical and scientific merit... NOAA's NCDC division documents U.S. maximum temperatures are exhibiting a
declining trend, not catastrophic «global warming»...
Of course, we can not expect poor countries to cut their
emissions as fast as rich ones, so a global
decline of 3 % p.a. translates into a 6 - 7 % p.a.
decline in energy and
industrial emissions in rich countries like Australia.
Because
emissions needed for food production will
decline more slowly, a 3 % overall
decline means a 4 % p.a.
decline in energy and
industrial emissions.
Because developing countries need to expand economic activity to escape grinding poverty according to one US White House paper,
industrial countries greenhouse gas
emissions would have to
decline by about 80 % by 2050.
In 2010, unlike other recent years, CO2
emissions from all
industrial fuel sources increased by 7.8 % as the economy recovered from the recession that led to the large
emissions declines of 2009.
The
industrial sector, which was the largest source of CO2
emissions throughout most of the 1990s, has experienced
declining emissions, with further
declines occurring in 2016.
Power sector
emissions continued to
decline, but
emissions from the transport, buildings and
industrial sectors all grew, offsetting half the
decline in the power sector.
Of course, we can not expect poor countries to cut their
emissions as fast as rich ones, so a global
decline of 3 % per annum translates into a 6 - 7 % per annum
decline in energy and
industrial emissions in rich countries.