Our friend Vance Ginn, who served as chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget under President Trump, tipped us that the EPA has updated its long-term data comparisons through 2022. The EPA reports that over the past 42 years from 1980 to 2022, carbon dioxide emissions are up slightly – by 7%.

But per unit of GDP since 1980 carbon dioxide emissions are down by about 80 percent. Per-person emissions are down by more than 50%. And as we’ve noted many times before on these pages, even with a near tripling of the U.S. economy, our levels of all the real pollutants are all DOWN by more than 60%.

This means the more America produces relative to the rest of the world, and the less China produces, the better for the ecology of the planet.