Explaining and understanding declines in U.S. CO2 emissions
Explaining and understanding declines in U.S. CO2 emissions / Zeke Hausfather. Berkeley Earth, Aug. 2013, 28 p.
http://static.berkeleyearth.org/memos/explaining-declines-in-us-carbon.pdf
Seven key factors, combined with the impacts of a prolonged economic slowdown, have led U.S. CO2 emissions to fall to 1996 levels, approaching even the long-‐abandoned Kyoto Protocol target. Is it conceivable that U.S. CO2 emissions may actually have peaked?…