UK Guardian massive climate embarrassment, US CO2 has dropped steadily for 20 yrs. and is heading lower. Admitting this would be financial and professional embarrassment to Guardian, if Guardian cared about the planet they’d mention 800 new coal plants opening in China and India

NASA and Hansen’s documented scientific statements aren’t reflected in Guardian's narrative. The Guardian speaks of "challenging NASA's data" when the Guardian itself avoids key data.
 
1/20/13, “NASA’s Goddard Institute Says Global Warming Has Become Reality,” Guardian Express, Jim Donahue

“Global warming deniers in the U.S., as well as high ranking Republicans in the House and Senate, have been trying to repudiate scientific global warming data for years now, but I don’t think they will try to challenge NASA’s data….

“One more year of numbers isn’t in itself significant,” Goddard climatologist Gavin Schmidt said. “What matters is this decade is warmer than the last decade, and that decade was warmer than the decade before. The planet is warming. The reason it’s warming is because we are pumping increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat and is a major risk factor for the increase in the Earth’s climate. It occurs naturally and also is emitted by the burning of the different fossil fuels for the energy needs of the world. Driven by increasing man-made emissions, the level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has been rising consistently for decades.”…

[Ed. note: US CO2 has been doing the reverse, ie US CO2 has been dropping for decades.]
 
(continuing): “The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was about 285 parts per million in 1880, the first year in the Goddard temperature record. By 1960, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory, was about 315 parts per million. Today, that measurement exceeds 390 parts per million.

While the rest of the Planet was experiencing relatively warm temperatures in 2012, the U.S. recorded its warmest year on record.

“The U.S. temperatures in the summer of 2012 are an example of a new trend of outlying seasonal extremes that are warmer than the hottest seasonal temperatures of the mid-20th century,” said Goddard Director James E. Hansen.”…

[Ed. note: Per NASA and the Guardian's own statements that CO2 causes weather, even if US temps. were hotter in parts of US in 2012, it can't possibly due to CO2 since US CO2 has been plunging. Further, US is only 1.5% of the planet.]

(continuing): ““The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.”

The temperature analysis produced at Goddard is compiled from weather data from more than 1,000 meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of 
sea-surface temperature, and Antarctic research station measurements. A publicly available computer program is used to calculate the difference between surface temperature in a given month and the average temperature for the same place during 1951 to 1980. This three-decade period functions as a baseline for the analysis. The last year that experienced cooler temperatures than the 1951 to 1980 average was 1976.”…
 
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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos 

“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….
 
In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total. 

The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that

virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…

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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.…

Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy
and potentially game changing at the global level.”...

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6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof

“While there has been some press coverage of these facts (see here and here) I continue to find that most people are surprised to learn about this progress….

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12/7/12, “Surprise Side Effect Of Shale Gas Boom: A Plunge In U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” Forbes, guest article by Julie M. Carey, an energy economist with Navigant Economics
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“In order to determine where [catastrophic man-caused] climate change fits into the priority ranking of our nation’s most important agenda items, it seems worthwhile to step back and take stock of the quiet but tremendous progress that the U.S. has already made in reducing carbon [dioxide] emissions.”…

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6/22/12, “U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress,” CNN, Steve Hargreaves

“Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see  

• greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall….

Others take the U.S. success in reducing its energy sector emissions as a sign that its fragmented, state-based, regulatory approach has worked better than Europe’s market-based cap-and-trade approach.”

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4/21/12, “Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S.
But Not in Europe,” by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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“As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are 

expected to decline further over the next decade.”

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News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:

• “Surprising,“
• “little noticed,“
• “dramatic,“
• “stunner,“
• “most people are surprised to learn,“
• “quiet but tremendous progress,”  
•  “major long term implications,”
• “game changing,”
• “shocker,”
• “huge contrast to the forecast.”

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NASA climate scientist Hansen says ’5 yr. mean global temp. flat for past decade,’ climate predictions hampered by lack of scientific data, notes 2011 NASA satellite to measure aerosols crashed on take-off, no plans to re-start mission:

Page 1 notes lack of scientific data on aerosols makes it impossible to accurately interpret global climate.

 
Jan. 15, 2013, “Global Temperature Update Through 2012, 15 January 2013,” Columbia University, J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Rudy

(page 1): “Summary. …”The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing….
 
(page 1, parag. 3): “The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but satisfactory quantitative interpretation has been impossible

• because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements 3,4.”…

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11/19/12, “More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide,” Damian Carrington, UK Guardian

“India is planning 455 new plants compared to 363 in China.”… 







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