World CO2 emissions to rise 75 pct by 2030: EIA

Eugene

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World CO2 emissions to rise 75 pct by 2030: EIA

World CO2 emissions to rise 75 pct by 2030: EIA

By Timothy Gardner
Reuters
Tuesday, June 20, 2006; 10:40 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global emissions of the heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide will rise
75 percent from 2003 to 2030, the U.S. government forecast on Tuesday.

The world's emissions of CO2 will hit 43.7 billion tonnes in 2030, up from 25 billion tonnes
in 2003, the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Department of Energy,
said in its annual forecast, the International Energy Outlook.

By 2025 global CO2 emissions could hit 40.05 billion tonnes annually, a rise of 0.03 percent
from its forecast issued last year, the EIA said.

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The forecast did not include potential effects of pending or proposed legislation, regulations,
or standards, including the international emissions reduction pact known as the Kyoto Protocol.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062000509.html

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Boomer

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Tue Jun-20-06 12:49 PM
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1. We are so screwed

n/t

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NNadir

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Tue Jun-20-06 01:51 PM
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2. I don't think so.

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phantom power

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Tue Jun-20-06 02:07 PM
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3. Coal, maybe?

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NNadir

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Tue Jun-20-06 02:45 PM
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4. Either through the agency of catastrophe or by planning, it will not

happen.

A betting man should bet on catastrophe.

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amandabeech

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Tue Jun-20-06 03:52 PM
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5. By 2030, there will probably be less emissions from burning oil,

because there will be less of it around to burn by then. With less oil, mining coal may be more expensive, since most current open pit mining equipment runs on diesel and often is delivered to generating plants using diesel. Higher prices may put the brakes on all that coal.

Super hurricanes in the U.S. and typhoons in the Pacific might help people get interested in reducing carbon emissions, as might famines and high food prices resulting from droughts in the central and southern U.S., southern Europe and northern and central China. Decreasing reliability of monsoons might get India's attention.

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