Global travelers hopped on airplanes in greater numbers last year after taking a break from travel during the pandemic, while more cities returned to burning coal for heat and electricity as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to shortages of natural gas.
Emissions of atmosphere-warming CO2 from energy production were up 0.9% to reach 36.8 gigatons in 2022, the IEA said, although it added that predictions had called for an even greater jump. For comparison, the mass of one gigaton is equivalent to about 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers, according to NASA.
A voluntary global pact first struck in Paris in 2015 calls for a limit of no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming if the worst of climate change is to be averted. In another recent report, the IEA came down hard on the oil and gas industry for not diverting more of their record profits toward efforts to limit methane emissions.
And as global air traffic increased, CO2 emissions from burning oil grew by even more than those from coal, at 2.5%, with the aviation sector responsible for about half the surge. Oil emissions are running below prepandemic levels, the IEA said.
So plants will grow better this summer? What’s your point? Really MW, I followed you for insights on the market. Didn’t realize you have such a left wing woke agenda.
No peer reviewed study shows CO2 drives global warming… prove me wrong and post it here.
And coal mines and coal burning made an all time high thanks to green lies being spread that led to disaster everywhere.
Nonsense
Might be those elites flying around the globe in private jets.... to meet and conspire how they can enslave the populations.
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