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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (25812)11/20/2009 1:31:40 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
O.K., I think I understand your argument now. You seem to be saying that because the U.S. increase in emissions was 0.6% compared with other nations 2.7% you have demonstrated that the US has come much closer to kyoto protocols than any of the supposedly superior nations.

However, to compare actual emissions to the Kyoto target you have to compare a countries' emissions at a given time to its emissions in 1990.

Also, I can't verify your figure of a 0.6% increase in U.S. emissions from 2000 to 2005. The U.S. Dep't of Energy shows U.S. emissions of 7075 million metric tons in 2000 increasing to 7257 in 2005 for an increase of 2.6%.

See Table 1 on page 9 at:

eia.doe.gov

Here is a graph of emission changes of selected countries:

cseindia.org

Here is a another chart showing 13 countries with a lower change in emissions since 1990.

cseindia.org
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