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Originally Posted by filtherton
Based on your premise, CO2 hasn't peaked, it's just on a downward trend because the economy is in the dumps. As soon as the economy starts growing again CO2 emissions will start going up again.
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Looking at the graph and other information my interpretation differs from yours. In the chart, I see a near peak in 2000, 2004, 2005 and an actual peak in 2007. In the 10 years following 2000, our economy has been changing becoming less relent on smoke stack industrial production. Also during that period vehicle emission standards and results have improved and older high emission vehicles have been removed from service. I think these changes will have a relative positive impact off-setting future economic growth which has been the trend over the past 20 years. I could be wrong, I doubt it and if I am I won't be off by much.
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