Global greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing by at least 1.3 per cent every year since 1970. From 2000 to 2010, those emissions were even greater, increasing by 2.2 per cent annually.
Current efforts to reduce greenhouse gases through demand management, energy efficiency and switching to renewable energy and low-carbon energy have not been enough.
Energy supply contributed the most emissions (35%) followed by agriculture, forestry and other land use changes (24%).
At the very same time, a new study conducted by Drexel University’s environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organisational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort. Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well-known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are “dark money,” or concealed funding.
Re-post of The IPCC’s terrible three from Business Spectator.
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