Talk:Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States/Archive 1

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Energy Information Administration

Energy Information Administration offers interesting information, but it doesn´t includes information about biofuels´ prices, only petroleum. --HybridBoy 09:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Greenhouse gas emissions by sector

As of 23:55, 20 August 2010 (UTC), the article contained no breakdown of US greenhouse gas emissions by sector, such as are available on the USEPA's inventory:

"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory". USEPA. 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2010-08-20.

It would be nice to make some diagrams similar to File:Greenhouse Gas by Sector.png, but for the US rather than the whole world, to illustrate this article. That would also show the differences between the relative amounts of greenhouse gases coming from given sectors in the US vs. globally. For example, in the US, the ratio of transport emissions to agricultural emissions is higher than for the whole world. This is because on global scale, most countries have agriculture, but few have motorized to the extent that the US has. --Teratornis (talk) 23:55, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

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A lot of old and incorrect information - Page needs major revisions.

A lot of the information in this article is old, bad, outdated, and wrong, and generally in ways that makes things seem worse than they actually are. In some cases with some bizarre omissions.

For example, it's peculiar that there's an entire section singling out and talking about 2007 and talking about how much emissions rose that year...but strangely doesn't mention that it's the year that US emissions peaked. It's peculiar that reference 4 used to justify that is a dead link...that from looking at the URL, I'm not sure it was ever valid. It appears to be a generic 'search result not found' page. It's peculiar that there's an image showing CO2 levels from the Mauna Loa observatory, even though that observatory is about 2500 miles from the continental United States. It's peculiar that the top few paragraphs are very, very selectively quoting individual years and talking about 2005 predictions for 2012...when here we are in 2018. That's really old data, and a lot of it hasn't played out as predicted. Why does the opening paragraph compare current emissions to 1990? You pretty much have to go back that far to find a year when emissions were lower. It looks like it's being selectively chosen to try to present US emissions as rising, when they're not, and actually the US has been one of the leading counties in the entire world in terms of emissions reductions for roughly the past 10 years.

http://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-in-2017-us-had-largest-decline-in-co2-emissions-in-the-world-for-9th-time-this-century/

"In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions in the world for 9th time this century"

https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/

"Emissions have declined in 7 out of the past 10 years, and energy‐related CO2 emissions in 2017 were 849 MMmt (14%) below 2005 levels"

https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/

"Emissions increased by 5.1 percent between 1990 and 2015 but are down 12.4 percent from the 2007 peak."

2601:600:877F:B570:547F:5683:414C:AF36 (talk) 01:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

It starts at 1990 because that is the international start year for all countries - see UNFCCC or Paris Agreement Chidgk1 (talk) 15:34, 30 June 2021 (UTC)