GHG and GDP

[Blind groper]

GHG is green house gases, and GDP the measure of a nation's economic performance.

New Scientist article 9 November.

The point of interest is that some nations are now reducing GHG's while increasing GDP. There is no link between economic success and success in improving our performance in terms of reducing impact on global warming.

Examples :

1. China.
From 2000 to 2011, China averaged an increase in GHG emissions of 10% per year. In 2013, they dropped it to 3% while still achieving an economic growth of 8%

2. USA.
Cut in GHG emissions of 4%, despite economic growth of 2.8%

3. Europe.
GHG emissions fell 1.6% while GDP fell 0.3%.

4. Global average.
GHG emissions rose 1.4% overall, compared to a global economic growth rate of 3.5%

Now admittedly, India is not doing as well. But the above stats suggest that efforts to reduce contributions to global climate change are bearing fruit. If this trend continues, GHG emissions will stop growing ad start to fall, as they did in Europe and the USA.

Is this a turning point?

[macdoc]

You want to look at Sweden to see what really can be done. Good article

http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/whic ... educed_car

[Tyrannical]

Funny how the same people complaining about global warming are the ones that caused the problem by exporting technology to the third world.