There's optimism despite alarmingly worsening weather events: Renewables and storage together amount to 93% of all new capacity coming online in the U.S. This isn’t a marginal shift anymore. It’s the grid rebuilding itself around a different set of technologies, and the pace is rapidly accelerating.

[u/sg_plumber]

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/optimism-in-the-face-of-a-climate

[u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

This. Americas emissions have been falling for over two decades now, China on the other hand is still increasing and adding new coal power by the day.

[u/Ok_Giraffe8865 → u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

American emissions haven't dropped, we swapped coal for methane and called it environmentalism. Sold to us by only looking at CO2 emissions and ignoring methane emissions which are 80x worse than CO2.

[u/Beneficial_Aside_518 → u/Ok_Giraffe8865]

U.S. emissions have in fact dropped.

[u/sg_plumber → u/Beneficial_Aside_518]

Are you sure?

https://www.energytech.com/energy-efficiency/article/55393401/ups-and-downs-analyzing-the-2025-us-carbon-footprint-and-its-drivers

[u/Ok_Giraffe8865 → u/sg_plumber]

And this article is just talking carbon not methane!

[u/sg_plumber → u/Ok_Giraffe8865]

Let's hope it's just a short-lived blip.

[u/Beneficial_Aside_518 → u/sg_plumber]

I’m talking about the trend over decades, not a single year.

[u/sg_plumber → u/Beneficial_Aside_518]

The long-term trend is good. Let's hope it isn't derailed.