Nov 23, 2020,08:29am EST|1,224 views
The United States And The Paris Climate Agreements - What Does The Data Say?
Daniel Markind
Daniel MarkindContributor
As the Biden Administration prepares to take office with a platform pledging both to respect science and to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreements, a review of the actual data appears in order.
Starting from a baseline on 2005 (which was also used by the Paris Agreement), CO2 emissions in the USA are down approximately 12%.
Some part of that improvement undoubtedly is due to increased use of renewable sources like solar and wind, but the overwhelming majority of that decrease has been caused by the change from coal based energy production to natural gas, facilitated greatly by fracking.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmarkind/2020/11/23/the-united-states-and-the-paris-climate-agreementswhat-does-the-data-say/?sh=4d4d6654adbf
