Of course, a large change in methane would make things hotter, but methane does not reside in the atmosphere very long, so my WAG is that direct efforts to reduce man's CH4 emissions could offset some or all of the expected increase in the rate of emissions from natural sources. If you...
A second part of the story in the US, is the active policy to try to undermine unions and, more importantly, a big change in the income tax code to make it much less progressive over the last 35 years. As far as real GDP growth per capita, it has grown for the World based on IM...
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change that put this report together was awarded the Nobel Prize in October. It's been studying the problem for five years. They've now released four reports on the subject. This latest is the most blunt. But the Bush administration says, "We...