http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/24935/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/time-warp-bloomberg-touts-un-report-calling-us-emission-cuts-1901-levels <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Report submitted to the UN would require total transformation of American society to meet carbon targets. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Bloomberg’s Eric Roston attempted to keep a straight face while promoting a draft report for the United Nations. It said U.S. emissions would need to be “cut to one-tenth of current levels, per person, in less than 40 years.” Short of genocide, it is unclear how that could be done.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BizMediaJulia" target="_blank">Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/time-warp-bloomberg-touts-un-report-calling-us-emission-cuts-1901-levels" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Climate Change Energy Environment Life bloomberg carbon capture and storage Carbon Dioxide CCS climate electricity production emission cuts emissions energy mix environment Eric Roston sustainability UN Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:09:57 +0000 julia.seymour 46661 at http://archive2.mrc.org