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Recession Trims Carbon Emissions 3%

There's less industrial activity, and more countries look to alternative fuels

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(Newser) – The recession will help the world achieve something this year few laws have been able to: cut the output of greenhouse gases. Emissions will be down 3% mainly due to lower industrial activity, the International Energy Agency said today, with countries also helping by switching to alternative energy sources.

“Because of the financial crisis, many industries have the chance to move away from unsustainable power,” an IEA official tells the Guardian. “If we get a good result at the Copenhagen climate talks, then they could be turned to sustainable energy.”

A car gives off exhaust in Montpelier, Vt.
A car gives off exhaust in Montpelier, Vt.   (AP Photo)
China has overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide emissions.
China has overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide emissions.   (AP Photo)
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Timinator2K
Oct 6, 09 6:27 PM CDT
3% carbon emissions saved = 10% unemployment, 6% = 20%, 12% = 40% Wow! Unemployment can SAVE the Earth! Reply
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Jayster999
Oct 6, 09 6:27 PM CDT
Hey, you liberals are going to love the New World Order: Equal opportunity poverty and misery for all world citizens (with the exception of the elite, naturally), and as an added bonus, we won't be able to afford energy or food and millions will starve. Protecting the planet by killing the people, it's the "democratic" way. Reply
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rajanKazhmin
Oct 6, 09 6:45 PM CDT
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Timinator2K
Oct 6, 09 6:48 PM CDT
...it's the "democratic" way. For me, I'd say J999, its the compassionate liberal way for all the little people, except for them, of course.
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JonmarkP
Oct 6, 09 6:51 PM CDT
But Limbaugh and Beck between them generate an offsetting 3% of noxious-gas carbon emissions, so there is no gain. Reply
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