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He'll be one of two presidents that have reduced the US's carbon emissions between first year and last year in office.
by dnautics 6y ago
He'll be one of two presidents that have reduced the US's carbon emissions between first year and last year in office.
- skygazer 6y agoWhich is all the more impressive given his indifference to carbon footprints, and hostility towards their reduction.
- dnautics 6y agoWell considering the other president was GWB...
- ttyprintk 6y agoInsofar as economic growth is considered positively correlated to carbon emissions, I head the GDP outliers referred to as "decoupling" from emissions. On as state-by-state basis, something like 40 US states are decoupled now, for various reasons (none of which seemed to be related to politics, to me). I suspect that, nationally, GDP seems correlated to carbon emissions.