{"id":6924,"date":"2013-04-20T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T08:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2013-04-20T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T08:44:20","slug":"fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6960\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/apr\/17\/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/C02-emissions-since-1850-001-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"C02 emissions since 1850 (red); exponential growth (blue); cuts to hit climate target (dashed). Source: The Guardian\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C02 emissions since 1850 (red); exponential growth (blue); cuts to hit climate target (dashed). Source: The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>There was a really interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/apr\/17\/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels\">article about fossil fuel<\/a> in The Guardian recently.<\/p>\n<p>The author points out that in spite of everything we&#8217;re doing (renewable energy, emissions trading, etc.), CO? emissions are still rising at the same rate as before &#8212; have a look at the graph on the right.  As it says in the article: &#8220;For whatever reason, cutting carbon has so far been like squeezing a balloon: gains made in one place have been cancelled out by increases elsewhere.&#8221;  The dotted line shows what the world needs to be doing to limit temperature rises to 2\u00b0C &#8212; there&#8217;s just no way the red line (the actual emissions) are going to fall like this over the next couple of decades.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn&#8217;t offer many concrete solutions, but I think it&#8217;s very important to realise that we aren&#8217;t currently actually doing anything to limit the rise in CO? emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a really interesting article about fossil fuel in The Guardian recently. The author points out that in spite of everything we&#8217;re doing (renewable energy, emissions trading, etc.), CO? emissions are still rising at the same rate as before &#8212; have a look at the graph on the right. As it says in the article: &#8220;For whatever reason, cutting carbon has so far been like squeezing a balloon: gains made in one place have been cancelled out by increases elsewhere.&#8221; The dotted line shows what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}