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Re:Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say by witty_username on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:58AM (#13176912)
Americans are one of the heaviest polluters per capita; so that could be why. Also, they often blame countries with highest emissions (in total) (China), as if climate change cares about borders.
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Re:Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say by mikro2nd on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:22AM (#13177149)
Not to mention that the US has been (albeit largely in ignorance) one of the heaviest emitters of GHGs for something like 150 years. China? A couple of decades?...

Time matters...

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Re:Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say by nickff on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:35AM (#13177269)
Those are sunk 'costs'.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_t...

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Re:Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say by emodendroket on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:18PM (#13179296)
I guarantee you developing countries will not find that a convincing answer to their objections about bearing the brunt of attempts to curb emissions.
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