I hope Mr. Jagdeo gets his shots before he fraternizes with those people.

This is the kind of news that give the oppositions shivers. They're dirt bent on denouncing the former president despite all his hard work. Little do they know that Bharat Jagdeo is responsible for Guyana's international status. Jagdeo will be recorded as one of the greatest president of the 21th century of Guyana. Kudos to him!

Jagdeo must be Guyana's luckiest politician - an unknown suddenly bursted on the scene and became president.

Yeah, international status aright..what pride!!  being the most corrup country in the western hemisphere....

Did you take lesson form the neemakaram association to put your country down? Stop your whining and do something to make it better!

neemakarams are the two bit hoes singing the glory of PPP for the past 20 years who put Guyana on the most corrupted list...keep on bending over fuh them...

.. and the name for those from 1964 to 1992?

Decent people.

It speaks volumes of those loosers. What can they do to initiate a regression of climate change.

The planet has it cycles.

They juss saying things to fill their ego. They should shave their heads, wear sack cloth and sit in ashes and beseech God to save them. 

The Almighty said, there will be a new heaven and new earth. Mankind really messing this one up.

I was,nt born then..maybe you can fill us in...

Those singing the glory of the PPP in 1964 are definitely ole farts.

Those PPP losers who gave critical support to the dictator in the 1970's, were just commie clowns. 

Jagdeo still running around fooling people that Guyana getting US $580 million a year for LCDS. Actually the C doesn't belong there since it's just a Low Development Strategy. 

JAgdeo knows as much about conservation and climate change as my dog knows about rocket science.

Perspective, of course.

Perhaps, your dog does all the thinking for you?

Like cackroach eat yuh memory.

This is a statement of pure jealously. You wouldn't get close to the stage former president Jagdeo will be speaking on. Again, shut you puss!

One does not feel jealous of a fake.

LOL

Ye who have eyes let them read…Ye who have wisdom as a Brahmin let them comprehend.

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Financial Times

May 23, 2012 11:57 pm

Shale gas boom helps slash US emissions

By Guy Chazan

The shale gas boom has led to a big drop in US carbon emissions, as generators switch from coal to cheap gas. According to the International Energy Agency, US energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have fallen 450m tonnes over the past five years – the largest drop among all countries surveyed.

Fatih Birol, IEA chief economist, attributed the fall to improvements in fuel efficiency in the transport sector and a “major shift” from coal to gas in the power sector. “This is a success story based on a combination of policy and technology – policy driving greater efficiency and technology making shale gas production viable,” Mr Birol told the Financial Times.

Shale gas has transformed the US energy landscape, with surging production pushing gas prices down to 10-year lows and heralding an industrial renaissance. But it is also the subject of a heated environmental debate, with critics alleging that the production process can pollute groundwater.

Gas is fast becoming the new fuel of choice for the US power sector: in the past 12 months, coal generation has slumped by 19 per cent while gas generation has increased by 38 per cent, according to US Department of Energy figures. A gas-fired plant produces half the CO2 emissions of a coal-fired one.

Overall, however, the IEA said 31.6 gigatonnes of CO2 were released into the atmosphere last year, mainly through the burning of fossil fuels – one gigatonne more than in 2010 and much higher than the average annual increase of 0.6 GT between 2006 and 2010. “The impact of this increase is going to be catastrophic,” said John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace. “We’ve really got to act now, with a real sense of urgency – which up till now has been completely lacking.”

The increase will make it harder to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels – which scientists believe is the threshold for potentially “dangerous climate change”.

The agency has calculated that in order to contain rising temperatures and avoid the most damaging effects of global warming, annual energy-related emissions should be no more than 32.6GT by 2017. “We are now only 1GT away from that, with five years still to go,” Mr Birol warned. “The door to a 2 degree trajectory is about to close, and to close forever.”

China’s production of carbon dioxide increased by more than 700m tonnes last year – a 9.3 per cent rise – while India overtook Russia to become the world’s fourth-largest producer of CO2, after China, the US and the EU. India’s emissions rose by more than 130m tonnes, or 8.7 per cent.

Most industrialised countries saw their carbon output fall last year. Japan, which took all its nuclear reactors offline in the wake of the 2011 ***ushima disaster, was a notable exception.

While China pumps out more CO2 than any other country, its per capita emissions are still only two-thirds of advanced countries. Mr Birol said China was making “major efforts” on energy efficiency, which had improved by 15 per cent over the past five years. Without these, he said, global carbon emissions would have been 1.5 gigatonnes higher.