The Great Recession, not natural gas, caused recent US carbon emission declines

Evidence

Some observers thought that increased use of natural gas, especially in power plants, had caused a drop in carbon emissions, but it turned out that decreased consumption of energy during the Great Recession was the actual cause (Magill, 2015b). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2769

Categorization

• CANDY: A counterintuitive one-liner: the emissions ‘success story’ was actually the recession, not gas switching — good for cocktail-party conversation.