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Of course. Apologies for being obtuse. Just... I don't know if you've ever looked at the data but can you explain why the emissions fell faster under both Bush

Of course. Apologies for being obtuse. Just... I don't know if you've ever looked at the data but can you explain why the emissions fell faster under both Bush and Trump than their Democratic successors? https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location... Going by the actual emissions, the decrease seems to be slowing when a Democratic candidate gets elected. Not to speak of Clinton under whom emissions actually increased, not decreased!

tootie 4y ago
For recent history, CO2 drops correlate almost 1:1 with recessions. Trump was legitimately terrible on policy he was just in office during the most dramatic economic contraction in our history. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/climate/united-states-climate-ranking-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/climate/united-states-cli... Not to mention all the well-intentioned liberal policies like increase vehicle fuel efficiency standards or the Clean Power Plan that got reversed by Trump before they came into effect. We need a good 20 years of complete liberal control of 3 branches of government and we haven't gotten anywhere near that.