[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: E.U. gassing the planet

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Posted by The Night Writer:
E.U. gassing the planet
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1171308888.shtml


   According to a [1]copyrighted ABC News story , White House Press
   Secretary Tony Snow is citing a study from the International Energy
   Agency that shows that European Union's carbon dioxide emmissions from
   fossil fuel increased at more than two times the rate of these
   emissions from the U.S. between 2000 and 2004. In the U.S. (which
   didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol) carbon emissions increased by 1.7
   percent in that time period, while the EU saw a 5 percent increase.
   I think Snow may have been referring to this report, [2]CO2 Emissions
   from Fuel Combustion 1971-2004. I don't have the â¬120 on me that the
   IEA wants in exchange for getting a copy of the entire report, but I
   suspect the White House was able to take it out of petty cash. While
   focusing on the years 2000-2004 is a bit self-serving, and it's
   questionable how much of a direct impact the Bush administration has
   had on these numbers (other than less heavy-breathing in the White
   House compared to the previous president), it is an interesting
   comparison to see the results of a somewhat-free economy versus the
   carbon-cap system in place in Europe, and could bear further research
   into the mechanisms related to this growth.

References

   1. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=2857869
   2. http://www.iea.org/w/bookshop/add.aspx?id=36