Despite all the fear mongering from the media, universities and democrats, it turns out that the USA accomplished the largest DECREASE in carbon emissions! Most countries actually INCREASED their emissions, including the European countries most well known for browbeating everyone else! This happened despite the Trump admin being in power, and in spite of our withdraw from the terribly deceptive and unhelpful Paris agreement(I posted a thread with a video describing its laughably corrupt details).
https://capitalresearch.org/article/u-s-achieves-largest-decrease-in-carbon-emissionswithout-the-paris-climate-accord/
Hmmm...so, in looking at the source data on which this article is based (the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, found here:
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2018-full-report.pdf), it appears the main feature claim of the article is correct, but rather misleading.
The claim is that the U.S. posted the biggest decline in carbon emissions in 2017 of any country (and therefore, by implication, Trump is some kind of climate savior in disguise, while Obama was really a gas guzzling emissions hog in disguise). According to the BP report, the claim about emissions reduction is true--the reduction was indeed about 42 million tons. However, the total emissions output hovered, for the last decade, around 5.5
billion tons. The Obama years saw some significantly larger reductions--from 08 to 09 there was a reduction of nearly 400 million tons, and the entire period of Obama's Presidency saw a reduction of a little over 500 million tons--about 10% of total CO2 emissions. There were, to be fair, years in which emissions rose during Obama's presidency, but the overall trend was toward reduction of emissions.
In context of the total emissions produced, a reduction of 42 million tons is anemic, at best. It represents about 7/10ths of a percent reduction. Hardly anything to cheer about. Other countries, notably Mexico, outstrip us significantly in reducing their proportional emissions.
In short, this "article" is really an exercise in propaganda. It's a little like an article that once appeared in
Pravda about an international car race. The headline read: The Russian Car Came in Second, while the American Car Came in Next to Last!!! The article didn't mention that there were only two cars in the race. Technically true, but very misleading. Where the rhetoric of the article sort-of directs your thinking to go is not remotely warranted by any examination of the data.