US Marines install new solar panels at an outpost in Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 19, 2012. US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Alexander Quiles/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS
CNBC: The Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal or Sweden, study says
* The Pentagon’s emissions were “in any one year… greater than many smaller countries total greenhouse gas emissions,” researchers of the study said.
* The findings showed that if the Pentagon was listed as a country, its emissions would make it the world’s 55th largest contributor of greenhouse gases.
* China is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for climate change, followed by America.
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world, new research shows, creating more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than industrialized countries such as Portugal or Sweden.
The Pentagon, which oversees the U.S. military, released around 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases between 2001 and 2017, according to research by Brown University. The study, published Wednesday, is the first of its kind to compile such comprehensive data.
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4 comments:
If the US military had not flown their planes from 2014 to 2018 against ISIS there would have been a human and ecological cost too. Pick your poison.
CO2 isn’t a pollutant. Plant life requires it and produces O2 in exchange. That’s a good exchange!
In the distant past the earths trace amounts of atmospheric CO2 has been higher with life abundant.
You have to be an idiot to think atmospheric CO2 is a worry.
There is growing recognition within the scientific and policy communities that efforts to address climate change should focus not only on substantially reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but also on near-term actions to reduce those climate pollutants that remain in the atmosphere for much shorter periods of time. Short-lived climate pollutants—such as black carbon, methane, troposopherhic ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons—account for 40 to 45 percent of global warming to date. Unlike carbon dioxide, short-lived climate pollutants have a shorter atmospheric lifetime but have a high global warming potential, meaning they can warm the Earth faster compared to carbon dioxide. Targeted efforts to reduce these emissions can slow the pace of global warming by 0.6 degrees Celsius by 2050.
Ah - a new campaign plank for Dems: “Save the planet Dismantle the US Military”
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