Well, lookee here: EIA has updated the numbers, and U.S. CO2 emissions are plummeting. In 2008, they dropped all the way back down to about 2001 levels. So far through 2009, emissions are on track to drop even further — likely to 1999 levels.

We signed Kyoto in November 1998. Emissions have turned around — and it’s cooling. [So what if this GHG-emissions reduction was accomplished the old-fashioned (and only proven) way — economic recession?]

Can we declare victory and go home? Or is it really necessary to “spread the wealth around” to those countries whose emissions are rapidly rising?