Australia overtakes US as biggest carbon dioxide polluter
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090911/wl_asia_afp/australiaenvironmentclimatewarming
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Australians have overtaken Americans as the world's biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warming, a risk consultancy says.
British firm Maplecroft placed Australia's per capita output at 20.58 tons a year, some four percent higher than the United States and top of a list of 185 countries.
Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out the top five. China remains the world's biggest overall greenhouse gas polluter, followed by the United States.
Maplecroft added that China and India's per person carbon production came in at just 4.5 and 1.16 tons respectively, in sharp contrast to their big overall figures.
This is one thing I'm happy the U.S. is not number one in.
British firm Maplecroft placed Australia's per capita output at 20.58 tons a year, some four percent higher than the United States and top of a list of 185 countries.
Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out the top five. China remains the world's biggest overall greenhouse gas polluter, followed by the United States.
Maplecroft added that China and India's per person carbon production came in at just 4.5 and 1.16 tons respectively, in sharp contrast to their big overall figures.
This is one thing I'm happy the U.S. is not number one in.
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yeah... "per capita"
its stupid to use that to measure emissions per capita because Australia can turn around and say we are going to reduce our emissions by 2%... which per capita will be the largest reduction in the world.
Australia produces about 1% of the worlds Co2 and most of that is produced to supply china with coal and steel.
Total emissions is the only usefull statistic.
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