Bill McKibben, David Rockefeller, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, your great issue US CO2 is now moot. Roy Orbison sings 'It's Over' to help you thru your pain

The great Roy Orbison sings, "It's Over."

Thanks very much to all who fought against CO2 and steered trillions of taxpayer dollars into fighting it in the US. Well done, and best of luck in your future endeavors. They say crying helps.

• 7/15/12, "Recession Special: Cleaner Air," NY Times, Matthew Wald

"What the government has not mandated, the economy is doing on its own: emissions of global warming gases in the United States are down.

According to the Energy Department, carbon dioxide emissions peaked in this country in 2005 and will not reach that level again until the early 2020s."...

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• US CO2 has dropped and is going lower:

6/26/12, "The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast - Part 2," switchboard.NRDC.org, Dan Lashof

• The NRDC author notes lack of media coverage about US ongoing CO2 emissions drop.

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• 8/16/12, "AP IMPACT: CO2 Emissions In US Drop To 20-Year Low," AP via NPR

"In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.

Many of the world's leading climate scientists didn't see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.

Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal is reason for "cautious optimism" about potential ways to deal with climate change."...

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6/29/12, "US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again," American Interest, Walter Russell Mead

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• 6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage

"Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord."...

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