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But the House is not alone. The US Department of

April 20, 2019 by Kenneth Newton

But the House is not alone. The US Department of Energy released its own report this August about the impact that human activities could have on climate change.

In that report, the Department of Energy concluded that warming is "likely unavoidable, and that the impacts of human activities on the climate are more likely to occur in the future."

The report, entitled, "An Overview of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Recent Performance in Past (and Future) Years," also called for a comprehensive, "green energy strategy" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the report, current efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent in the United States over the past 20 years have not resulted in the necessary reductions in CO2 emissions to stop the effects of climate change.

For example, the report noted that the average annual reduction in the total CO2 emissions from the US population is 7.2 percent, an amount comparable to emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas and nuclear power.

The report cites a 2009 study by the International Energy Agency in which the number of people living today on less than 200 acres in the United States was 7.9 million.

The most recent report, a 2015 USESG report, found that the US is currently contributing $1.2 trillion in to global warming to address greenhouse gas emissions. In its own report, the US said it would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent between now and 2040 by adopting a "green energy strategy" to cut global greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

But that strategy hasn't yet achieved its goals.

The report also found that US oil and gas companies would be hard-pressed to compete in a world where both CO2 and emissions from oil and gas are rising rapidly.

"I believe that the US is on the right path to reduce its emissions in the future," says Robert J. Green, executive director of the Center on Global Energy and Development.

Green believes that the long-term economic effects of the climate change that has occurred in recent decades outweigh the economic and social costs.

"The costs are much greater if we don't reduce our emissions now, but they will continue to be," he says.