Why the U.S. Should Not Make Emissions Pledge in Copenhagen [View All]

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The BIGGEST PROBLEM with reasoning and research behind Carbon Emissions Pledge Treaty being discussed is it Punishes countries that are actively mitigating carbon emissions and rewards the largest producers of carbon emissions.

This http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es803496a?cookieSet=1">Flawed Carbon Study seeks to punish consumers.

footprint is strongly correlated with per capita consumption expenditure

Consumption of Goods and Services has NOTHING to do with Carbon Emissions. The production of those goods through Coal Fired Electrical Generating Plants and Coal Fire Blast Furnaces used in the production of steel has every thing to do with Global Carbon Pollution.

This treaty is some thing that will never stop Carbon Emissions and reward the Biggest Polluters of the Environment. Some thing that will only lead to yet More Carbon Emissions. By punishing the United States for China and India's gross pollution you will only force China and India to expand into other market places while STILL EMITTING CARBON into the atmosphere

If you really want to stop Carbon Emissions you must go after the people that produce them, just as we did here in the United States.

smoke from dozens of fires (left side of image) in China swirls down along valleys and then out over Bo Hai Bay (upper right) on its way towards Korea and the Pacific Ocean.





William Lau, research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and his team studied the aerosols using computer models. They found aerosols in the form of dust lofted from the desert surface and transported to the monsoon region can heat the air by absorbing the sun's radiation, altering the Asian monsoon water cycle. Black carbon particles from industrial emissions, bio-fuel burning and forest fires can add to this warming effect by absorbing the sun's radiation and heating the air currents transporting those aerosols. In some instances, black carbon coats the dust amplifying the heating effect because black carbon absorbs solar radiation more efficiently than dust. Rains from this annual weather cycle are a lifeline to over 60 percent of the world's population. Up to now, scientists have understood very little about how aerosols interact with the atmosphere to influence monsoons.





Increased dust aerosols blowing in from western China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East coupled with black carbon emissions from northern India accumulate in the pre-monsoon late spring in the atmosphere over the northern and southern slopes of the Tibetan Plateau. When the dust absorbs the sun's radiation, it heats the surface air hovering above the mountainous slopes of the region. The heated air rises and draws warm, moist air in to northern India from the Indian Ocean, which helps create more rainfall. As the air warms and moves upward, new air is drawn in to take its place, which is also warmed - creating a process like a pump that pulls heated air upwards.

collecting dead fish out of Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad, western India.