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6. Fortunately I've never seen anyone on DU say they expect CO2 to go down *worldwide* ... certainly not here on E&E

Wed Jul 17, 2024, 07:20 PM

Jul 2024

And yes, anybody expecting CO2 to go down is living in dreamland. Looking at the data from when COVID shut down the World's economy there is not even a blip of a decrease in CO2.

On the "not even a blip" -- This one shows a 5.5% decrease worldwide from 2019 to 2020. I don't know what the definition of "blip" is when it comes to CO2; maybe 5.5% doesn't quite make it to blip territory. Is it a sub-blip? And in 2021 it was below its 2019 level as well.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/

Annual carbon dioxide (CO₂ ) emissions worldwide from 1940 to 2023 (in billion metric tons)
Characteristic Emissions in billion metric tons
2018 36.77
2019 37.04
2020 35.01
2021 36.82
2022 37.15
2023 37.55

My posts up thread were, as clearly specified, solely about the U.S.electric power sector, and didn't predict that the turndown that began in 2007 in that sector would continue. In case anyone reading this thread is confused about that.

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