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* As we all know, the most important task currently facing the world is
the elimination of carbon emissions from energy consumption in order
to save the planet from the existential crisis of climate disruption.
* The world actually got started on this task back during the 1980s and
90s, with the creation of the IPCC (1988), the issuance of the IPCC’s
First (1990) and Second (1996) Assessment Reports on the climate, and
the signing of the Kyoto Protocol (1997) for emissions reductions.
* But it was only after 2000 that things really started to get serious.
In 2005 the Kyoto Protocol officially took effect. It was June 2008
when Barack Obama promised (in his speech accepting the Democratic
Party’s nomination for President) that this would be “the moment when
the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal
..."). Two years later, in 2010, Germany adopted legislation
formalizing its Energiewende program to replace fossil fuels with
“renewables.”
* So by today the U.S. and Europe have been hard at work for well over
a decade on the real nitty gritty of getting rid of fossil fuels and
replacing them with “renewables” like wind and solar power.
* It’s time for a Report Card on how things are going.
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