Strange: Fossil Fuels “Emissions” To Hit Record Highs In 2025

How can this be? Aren’t more and more people driving hybrids? Buying EVs because they are being forced into them/enticed with insane subsidies? Aren’t some nations, like in the EU, going nuts in blocking the use of fossil fuels, blocking new drilling/extraction? Stopping the use of natural gas for home heat, cooking, and hot water? Replacing fossil fuels with “green” energy? And many US states doing the same? How is this possible? Aren’t all the Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

Global fossil fuel emissions to hit record high in 2025, study says

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5°C would now be essentially “impossible.”

The annual Global Carbon Budget report looks at humanity’s emissions of planet-heating CO? from burning hydrocarbons, cement production, and land use — such as deforestation — and relates the figures to the warming thresholds outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

An international team of scientists found that CO? emissions from fossil fuels will be 1.1 percent higher in 2025 than a year ago, with the massive rollout of renewable technologies still not enough to compensate for growing energy demand.

With emissions from oil, gas, and coal all set to rise, the overall figure is due to reach a record 38.1 billion tonnes of CO?.

If all those Warmists stopped using fossil fuels that would drop quite a bit, right?

Released as nations meet for COP30 climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, the new study calculated a remaining allowance of 170 billion tonnes of CO? to limit warming to 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels — the target outlined in the Paris Agreement.

“This equates to four years of emissions at the current rate before the budget for 1.5°C is exhausted, so that is impossible, essentially,” said Pierre Friedlingstein of Britain’s Exeter University, who led the research.

I wonder how many tons of “emissions” could be cut if 40K weren’t taking long, fossil fueled trips to COP30 to complain about Other People using fossil fuels and trying to restrict them for those Other People?