Thursday, December 2, 2010

Study: lower carbon emissions linked to recession

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Carbon dioxide dioxides, claimed to be the chief cause of global warming in political circles, decreased from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, says a study released Sunday.

"There is a close link between the world's gross domestic product and emissions of carbon dioxide,"
says study lead author Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, according to a story in USA TODAY...

[Of course, energy use is activity - control it and you control all activity...]

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