Global Emissions in Decline

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5. Encouraging if true, but . . .

A. Bloomberg NEF focuses (as I understand it) on energy markets, new technologies, electrical grids, industrial GHG outputs and automobile sales. Deriving emissions totals from these activities matters very much, but . . .

B. I am uncertain as to how closely Bloomberg NEF focuses on land use, agriculture (especially by-products of chemical fertilizer breakdown), changes in albedo from deforestation and so forth.

C. Bloomberg NEF is not presenting its findings in Nature or Science or PNAS or Geophysical Review Letters ( you get my drift).

D. Results from direct instrumental measurements of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere continue to rise.

So yeah, encouraging if true, but color me skeptical as to whether this encompasses the whole story, or even if we should feel encouraged by it.