US Still Pouring on the Heat

If this weren’t so damn scary it would be a cartoon movie: daddy in the car speeding toward the cliff, kids in the back seat screaming, daddy saying, “Don’t worry kids, I’m going one mile per hour slower than I was yesterday.”

According to the new report, the administration’s climate policy will result in emissions growing 11 percent in 2012 from 2002. In the previous decade, emissions grew at a rate of 11.6 percent…

U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions

But in good news the EPA announced that diesel emissions would be drastically curtailed over the next quarter century, reducing Nitrous Oxide (smog former) by 80% and particulate matter by 90%.

Good!

[Though it’s not clear whether rules have been issued ( WaPo) or merely proposed (SF Chronicle)]