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Slightly more nuanced point: US emissions are actually down from their peak by quite a bit [1]. The problem is that developing countries like China are rapidly
by mdorazio 11y ago
Slightly more nuanced point: US emissions are actually down from their peak by quite a bit [1]. The problem is that developing countries like China are rapidly increasing their emissions to US per capita levels [2] while the rest of the world's emissions aren't dropping fast enough to compensate. At this point it's pretty inevitable that world CO2 levels are going to continue rising for many years.
[1] https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.ht...
[2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC/countries/CN?display=graph http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC/countries...
- jseliger 11y agoThe problem is that developing countries like China are rapidly increasing their emissions to US per capita levels I've also read that many of China's emissions come from producing products for export, such that the U.S. may be shedding official omissions by shifting production to China, which allows the emissions to be counted there even though the final product ends up being used in the U.S.