US to rewrite its past national climate reports

Re:US to rewrite its past national climate reports by softwaredoug on Friday August 08, 2025 @07:55AM (#44835966)

I’m not sure the US matters as much as other economies. And our emissions peaked around 2005 and continues to decline. We will still continue to reduce emissions in the next few years because old energy sources just are losing economic viability.

The US is just choosing to make a huge mistake and not participate in growth markets like clean energy, etc.

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Re:US to rewrite its past national climate reports by ManBeardPc on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:36PM (#44839606)

The US matters, it has a big influence and could force companies around the globe to hurry up the transition. Just because the emissions may have peaked a lot of it is just outsourced. Also just reducing is not enough. We already missed important goals.

Fossil fuels losing economic viability is a small light at the end of the tunnel. But even that may not help if politic is making bad enough laws.

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Re:US to rewrite its past national climate reports by EasyMark on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:51PM (#44841577)

We don't emit as much as China and India now, but we're not small potatoes either. As bad as we consider ourselves, those two countries are worse and due to only increase it for the next 30 years or so. So that may be the only point the climate deniers really have, that any changes we make maybe be irrelevant since we're probably already over the point of criticality and it may become a self-driving cycle of wiping out the environment for the next couple hundred years.

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