{"id":237508,"date":"2023-01-03T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=237508"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:58:49","slug":"carbon-dioxide-emissions-hit-new-record-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=237508","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit New Record In 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Near the end of 2020, as the covid-19 pandemic continued to rage, a few climate scientists and energy experts made a prediction. They estimated that emissions from fossil fuels \u2014 which had just plummeted thanks to the global pandemic \u2014 might never again reach the heights of 2019. Perhaps, they speculated, after over a century of ever more carbon dioxide flowing into the atmosphere, the world had finally reached \u201cpeak\u201d emissions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a report released last month by the Global Carbon Project, carbon emissions from fossil fuels in 2022 are expected to reach 37.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the highest ever recorded. That means that despite the continued fallout from the <\/em>coronavirus<\/em><\/a> pandemic \u2014 which caused emissions to drop by over 5 percent in 2020 \u2014 CO2 emissions are back and stronger than ever.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have reacted with dismay. For years before the pandemic, emissions appeared to be leveling off \u2014 sparking hope that the world was finally reaching the moment when emissions would start to come down. Then in 2020, \u201cCovid came, there was a huge drop in emissions \u2014 and I guess we got a little overexcited,\u201d said Glen Peters, a climate scientist at the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s why researchers were wrong about emissions peaking \u2014 and what it means for the future \u2014 in three charts:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This statement is very telling, coming as it does from a climate scientist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFossil fuels are still the cheapest way to provide reliable electricity,\u201d said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. (While wind and solar <\/em>can be cheaper<\/em><\/a> than fossil fuels in some cases, their intermittency \u2014 and the absence of cheap, big batteries \u2014 mean that it\u2019s difficult to build an entire electricity system out of just renewable energy.) \u201cIt\u2019s like Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs,\u201d Caldeira said. \u201cDeveloping countries have to put climate concerns second to their economic concerns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything, the situation is worse than portrayed, as China\u2019s economy has still been hamstrung by brutal Covid lockdowns during 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anybody with an ounce of common sense would have known this was going to happen. And that emissions will carry on rising while ever developing nations want to grow their economies, or until something better than fossil fuels comes along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It shows just how divorced from reality those pushing Net Zero agendas really are.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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