Economic Slump, Not Natural Gas Boom, Responsible for Drop in CO2 Emissions
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 11:30
in Earth & Climate
The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis shows.