U.S. Ranked Seven of Eight on Climate Change
posted by: GinaMarie Cheeseman 180 days ago
The U.S. is ranked seven in the G8 Climate Scorecard, in a recently released study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and global insurance company Allianz SE. The U.S. was ranked behind Canada, and ahead of Russia, a slight improvement from previous years when it ranked last.
The study rated the climate performance of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. The countries were rated for the reduction/growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1990, the percentage of their energy portfolio from renewables, and investment in clean energy technology.
The U.S., according to the study, has a “strong dependence on coal and oil.” However, the Obama administration was praised by the study for having a “very positive and encouraging attitude towards climate policies.” It acknowledged the economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as having “included significant support for renewables and energy efficiency.”
A quote by Richard Moss, Vice-President and Managing Director for Climate Change in the WWF USA, was included in the study. Ross said, “President Obama has done more to support a clean energy economy in the last four months than has been done in the last three decades to get her in the US. If Congress pick s up on this leader ship and passes a strengthened clean energy bill, the US ranking will change quite dramatically in the coming years.”
The study mentioned that plans are underway for “s significant new policies and legislative initiatives.” One of the legislation initiative mentioned was the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, which contains emissions reduction targets that are, according to the study, “less ambitious in the short-term.”
"During the debate on the energy and climate bill in the House of Representatives last Friday, opponents of the legislation demanded that other countries first step up to the plate," said WWF President and CEO, Carter Roberts in a press release about the study. "The truth is that not only has much of the rest of the world already been at the plate, they’re several innings into the game and we’re only now emerging from the dugout.”
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I have a vested interest, I drive a car, heat my house, eat food, use a computer, go to movies etc etc. I would rather not pay more for all these things so Al Gore can become a billionaire.
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ChrisS wrote: "Global Warming is a terrible hoax!"
Chris, who are you working for, the oil or coal industry?
Even IF (a big IF) the current warming trend is caused more by some natural long term trend than activity by humans, clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy is still a preferable alternative to oil and coal, which we know to create pollutants harmful to plants, animals, and humans.
The only way an intelligent adult human being can believe otherwise is if they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo of the power monopolies.
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We need a world coordinator on the environment and that should be the United Nations, but the world countries with power will not allow the UN to be viable and powerful. One report says we are facing extinction of animal species of 20,000 every year not the typical natural ones of one every 5 yrs. In the past 100 yrs. we have lost 75% of our trees...they provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. Come on this is an emergency situation and yet we keep thinking in terms this is my country and the hell with our world crisis, or we think I am an individual and the heck with world crisis I will do all for me, me.
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Ho! Rex, you're WAY out of line with that drooling insult.
The fact is Global Warming is a terrible hoax;
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html
Inhofe Exposes EPA report Global Warming is a hoax.
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=6392096&maven;_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl;=http://www.foxnews.com/index.html
Video clip: Global Warming Just A Myth?
http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/23425079/global-warming-just-a-myth.htm#q=6%2F26+Stuart+Varney
The Climate Change Climate Change
The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html
“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy
“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.
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We rank so far down the line because the U.S. politicized the whole thing because the messenger was Al Gore. None of the skeptics that claim it's all politics has explained how global warming is indeed political? I've asked repeatedly and why the rest of the world would buy into it if it is just U.S. politics?
I'm with Julie P. We may have had global weather changes before but never at this rate and with over 7 billion piggy people on earth. When I don't see something as simple to clean up as litter in my ditches anymore, than I'll start to believe we're not pigs polluting the closed ecosystem of earth to its breaking point. Global warming or not, we need to clean up after ourselves, whenever, and wherever now!
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What I have to say is in two parts.
In the first part, all I say is that not only US, but also all other countries have to undertake concerted efforts to reverse, as far as possible, the process of greenhouse emissions; it is futile to target US alone - I believe all of us have to pitch in all around the world. In all this, indeed, US has to do a little more than others.
Second and equally, if not more, important is to look at the phenomenon as a scientific challenge which demands that efoorts be made to effectively utilise the extra heat energy for human and general good of the earth. I wonder if the scientific community has undertaken this task so far with the seriousness it deserves. I appeal to all that they take this up in all fora where they speak, write or participate in discussions on this subject.
Finally, I believe it is the pressure of population that has led to global warming - I believe that much greater effort is needed by all countries, especially in the Third World, to reverse the global warming phenomenon.
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Thank God we placed that low. Let the Euro weenies kill THEIR economy like Spain is trying to create "green" jobs!
I wish we were 8 or better yet, dropping out the G8 talkfest. One quasi market economy, 6 socialist and one quasi command and control oliogarchy. If we agree on anything anymore it seems to just hurt us more.
Luckily it seems more and more nations/people are waking up to this enviro fraud, maybe we'll be one in time.
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Everybody should come up with a positive action. The livestock industry worldwide is the cause of 80% of the greenhouse gases.
Logic tells me that we who are still eating meat are the cause of it. We should not wait for any industries, companies, governments, we all can do something for a start and have a huge impact. Global warming has got a lot to do with what you put on your plates. Let's be vegetarian, better vegan, and save the world.
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It's about time the USA did something positive for the future generations. They are the biggest criminals in poisioning the earth and hope they wake up in time to save it from total darkness instead of making excuses. If they keep on the track, this may be the only positive contribution towards helping rather than destroying every thing they see.
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I don't need WWF to tell me nothing is happening on climate change and pollution. I smell the air. My country, Canada, is the very worst (we are doing NOTHING). But WWF is not a friend to wildlife or animals:
http://www.wickedwildlifefund.com/
They are a pro-hunt and pro-vivisection org.
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