US leads the world in reduction of CO2 emissions

Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That, brings us the chart of the week, which shows how countries are doing with carbon emissions.

Last year the United States had the largest decline in CO2 emissions *in the entire world* for the 9th time this century.

For that impressive “greening” of America, we can thank the underground oceans of America’s natural gas that are now accessible because of the revolutionary, advanced drilling and extraction technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal/directional drilling, and are increasingly displacing coal for the nation’s electricity generation.

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