US Falling Emissions a Mirage: Offshoring and Fracking

America's emissions are not falling, as suggested by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).  The two main reasons are offshored goods and services and fracked natural gas.  The EIA does two things that obscure reality when evaluating emissions.  One is that it counts only emissions made in the United States.  All those goods and services made in China or other developing nations don't count against US emissions.  The other is the warming potential of other greenhouse gas emissions.  The EIA counts only CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

So the EIA's quote that US emissions are falling that has been spread across the media without regard to science, needs some explaining.

US Falling Emissions a Mirage:  Offshoring and Fracking