Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use

Re:Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use by jbi on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:06AM (#10676065)

> China and India, which rank among the top greenhouse gas emitters globally

Gosh.

They rank top in absolute numbers. Germany ranks top per citizen. The western model is not a model for the world.

Source: Matthews et. al, national contributions to observed global warming https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/1/014...

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Re:Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use by amai on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:51AM (#10676263)

The complete table is

Warming per billion people: 1. United Kingdom 0.54, 2. United States 0.51, 3. Canada 0.41, 4. Russia 0.41, 5. Germany 0.40, 6. Netherlands 0.34, 7. Australia 0.30, 8. Brazil 0.26, 9. France 0.26, 10. Venezuela 0.25, 11. Argentina 0.23, 12. Colombia 0.21, 13. Poland 0.19, 14. Thailand 0.14, 15. Japan 0.10, 16. Mexico 0.09, 17. Indonesia 0.07, 18. Nigeria 0.05, 19. China 0.05, 20. India 0.04

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Re:Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use by mohawk on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:26AM (#10676152)

According to that paper (table 3), the UK is number one per capita, and Germany is rank 5.

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