{"id":38246,"date":"2020-02-24T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38246"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:35:03","slug":"another-unsung-accomplishment-by-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38246","title":{"rendered":"Another Unsung Accomplishment By President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Air<\/a> is reporting today that America reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Increased natural gas consumption helped bring down U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, according to a recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chances are you haven\u2019t heard. That\u2019s because the mainstream media and environmentalists insist on condemning the Trump administration for championing fossil fuels even though the United States is doing a better job at reducing emissions than many other countries that signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The public can credit much of this success to the fracking boom, which has made natural gas much more plentiful. Cheap, abundant natural gas has gradually been displacing coal, which emits about twice as much carbon dioxide. A recent Rhodium Group study found that coal-fired power generation dropped by 18% last year, the lowest level since 1975.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, thanks to a huge abundance of cheap natural gas (generated via fracking), America reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 2% in 2019 after previously cutting them by the same amount the prior year. In fact, U.S. emissions went down by 12% between 2005 and 2017. By next year, American emissions are projected to be the lowest they have been since 1991, a time when the population was much lower than it is now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By comparison, how are the \u201cgood\u201d countries who signed on to the Paris accord doing? As it turns out, France Germany and the United Kingdom all missed their emissions reduction goals last year<\/a>. Germany\u2019s emissions actually increased after they started gutting their nuclear power program and were forced to restart some coal-fired plants to keep the lights turned on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only countries that are given high marks for meeting the climate agreement\u2019s objectives are very small nations with low populations and not very much economic or industrial activity. So who are the real bad guys in this story? Before any global consortium starts trying to dictate to us how to handle our greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps they should get their own houses in order and follow our example. Rather than just talking about reducing emissions, we\u2019re actually doing it. And we didn\u2019t need a treaty with anyone else to get the job done.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason the success of America in reducing greenhouse gases is not heralded is that the success goes against the purpose of the climate change agenda–it doesn’t allow tyrannical countries to shake down democracies and republics.The goal of the climate change rhetoric is to redistribute the world’s wealth–to take money from countries that have prospered under the free market and give it to countries where the government controls the economy. America’s success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions simply does not fit the desired template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot Air is reporting today that America reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. The article reports: Increased natural gas consumption helped bring down U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, according to a recent report from the U.S. Energy Information … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7850,55,3428,403,1294,94,5648,11214,1583,1957,6354,10589,6834],"class_list":["post-38246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-energy-information-administration","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-hot-air","tag-natural-gas","tag-paris","tag-president-trump","tag-u-s-energy-information-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38247,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246\/revisions\/38247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}