cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/54245880
The U.S. war with Iran has raised fossil fuel prices so much that the resulting drop in oil demand has put the world on track to see a rare dip in carbon emissions from these sources in 2026.
Between 2019 and 2025, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels grew by about 0.8 percent annually, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. But 2026 is set to buck that trend: high oil prices, as well as the continued rise of green technology—solar power, wind and electric cars—will cause a “short-term” 0.4 percent drop, according to the study.
“The high petrol prices following the war in Iran are reducing oil use and keeping emissions low,” says the study’s lead author Corinne Le Quéré, a professor of climate change science at the University of East Anglia in England. “But that’s not the whole story: The expansion of renewable energy has progressed a lot in recent years, led by China. And [along with electric vehicles], this is offsetting two thirds of the growing demand for energy.”
With all sources of carbon considered, including deforestation, total global CO2 emissions are set to continue increasing.
My goal is to own a house. I hate renting. When you rent you’re locked in to so many stipulations and regulations it’s not living it’s surviving. If you want to live you need your own place, if you want to survive, you rent.
Maybe that’s just Boston but I plan on buying a house ont he outskirts Boston or outer areas like Woburn or potentially even int he western Massachusetts areas cause they’re notoriously a bit cheaper but again one county away, you need a car because the cr comes two hours max away and that’s a two hour wait.
They’re building like crazy near me and… Who’s affording these places?
I’d rather the revolving issues of owning a house, than pay 21,600$ a year, 1,800$/MO.
That’s such a waste of you actually play the medical field or coding though because then you’re better off a mortgage.