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[News] UK CO2 emissions at lowest level since 1888...



Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysi...ell-for-record-sixth-consecutive-year-in-2018

"Carbon Brief analysis shows the UK’s CO2 emissions fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2018, the longest series of continuous reductions on record.

The estimated 1.5% reduction was once again driven by falling coal use, down 16% compared to a year earlier, whereas oil and gas use were largely unchanged. However, there are signs the recent run of reductions could be coming to an end, with 2018 seeing the smallest fall in the six-year series.

The UK’s CO2 emissions were an estimated 361m tonnes (MtCO2) in 2018, some 39% below 1990. Outside years with general strikes, this would be the lowest since 1888, when the first-ever Football League match was played and Tower Bridge was being built in London.

These findings are based on Carbon Brief analysis of newly released energy use figures from the UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The department will publish its own CO2 estimates on 28 March."

is this some looney climate change denier FAKE NEWS?
 


Sussex Nomad

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Aug 26, 2010
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Just get those cows to stop farting and we'll be a clean air haven.
 




beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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well done us.
 


Hamilton

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Jul 7, 2003
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Good news. Now, more of the same and let's get the rest of the world cracking climate change. We're bit players compared to other big polluters, and we don't have that much rainforest to chop down.
 




blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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a galaxy far far away
It's nowhere near enough. We should be looking to hack off 5% every year.

Totally agree with the point that there are bigger polluting nations. However all we can do is look after our own country and try and exert some of the small amount of political and economic pressure we still have on those other countries to do their bit
 


Blue3

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Jan 27, 2014
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Indeed it's very good news however we have almost exhausted savings from the easy coal reductions when the report says

"The 1.5% reduction in the UK’s CO2 emissions in 2018 is the smallest decline over the past six years. This highlights the fact that continued cuts cannot be taken for granted".

And goes onto say

"Meanwhile, emissions from oil increased by 4% (6MtCO2), while CO2 from gas was unchanged. (The remainder is made up of changes in emissions from other fuels, such as non-renewable wastes, as well as CO2 from non-fuel sources, such as cement production.)

Notably, coal CO2 emissions now make up just 7% of the UK total. This small share will shrink even further as coal-fired power stations continue to close ahead of a 2025 phaseout deadline. Only 5% of UK electricity generation in 2018 was from coal, a record low.

This means there is limited potential to continue reducing overall UK emissions if coal is the only contributor. Emissions from oil and gas will also have to be cut if the UK is to meet its legally binding carbon targets in future"

So while this is very good news much of the easy low lying fruit has now been picked and the task from here on will be tougher and far more expensive
 


GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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[The UK’s CO2 emissions were an estimated 361m tonnes (MtCO2) in 2018, some 39% below 1990. Outside years with general strikes, this would be the lowest since 1888, when the first-ever Football League match was played and Tower Bridge was being built in London.

I honestly had no idea that general strikes were good for the environment.
 




Guy Fawkes

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Sep 29, 2007
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysi...ell-for-record-sixth-consecutive-year-in-2018

"Carbon Brief analysis shows the UK’s CO2 emissions fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2018, the longest series of continuous reductions on record.

The estimated 1.5% reduction was once again driven by falling coal use, down 16% compared to a year earlier, whereas oil and gas use were largely unchanged. However, there are signs the recent run of reductions could be coming to an end, with 2018 seeing the smallest fall in the six-year series.

The UK’s CO2 emissions were an estimated 361m tonnes (MtCO2) in 2018, some 39% below 1990. Outside years with general strikes, this would be the lowest since 1888, when the first-ever Football League match was played and Tower Bridge was being built in London.

These findings are based on Carbon Brief analysis of newly released energy use figures from the UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The department will publish its own CO2 estimates on 28 March."

is this some looney climate change denier FAKE NEWS?

Is this explainable simply by the fact that the location for the production of most goods consumed (ie cars, industrial manufactured items, etc) in this country has changed, so instead of being produced in this country and the emissions counting towards our totals, it has simply been moved to elsewhere in the world as our economy moved away from manufacturing here to places like China
 


beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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I honestly had no idea that general strikes were good for the environment.

which serves to demostrate that all thats needed for low emissions is an end industry and commerce. or build a lot of wind, hydro and nuclear power, with consequences of them.
 


portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
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It's good news but we need bloody incredible news i.e. China, India, US etc to announce falls (truthfully)
 




Barham's tash

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Jun 8, 2013
3,612
Rayners Lane
The thing is while statements like this - whether massaged statistics or not - are clearly a good thing as others have said are nowhere near enough.

When you stop to consider whether CO2 release is the driver in anthropogenic global warming [i studied paleoclimatology as part of my Geology undergrad] and am yet to be entirely persuaded either way but one thing does worry me.

As the global atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen the main anthropogenic drivers were the industrialisation [c1800-1980] of now developed economies (The West) which were by in large and by a significant order of magnitude much smaller than their present day counterparts - namely S East Asia, China, India and possibly with Africa to come- (The East).

Global CO2 emissions were 9.8 gigatonnes in 2016 v 8.3 in 2006 so any reduction on our part is purely inconsequential in the long run.

Basically we’re ****ed.




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LowKarate

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Jan 6, 2004
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Taking the tops off the coke bottles at The Amex isn’t going to help us hit these targets.

I can see this trend reversing faster.

Barber out!
 



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