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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by harryh on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:17PM (#21993478)
Ah, OK. This is all time total. I was referring to current annual emissions.

Definitely two different things.

At projected rates when will China "catch up" in terms of all time total?

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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by titzer on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:25PM (#21993568)
Just back of the envelope calculation, according to my link the US emitted 400B tons total and China is emitting ~10.8B annually now, so that'd be 37 years with no growth. So yes, the US is in a really deep hole here.
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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by imtringued on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:23PM (#21994798)
It wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese somehow manage to never exceed 400B tons.
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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by harryh on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:49PM (#21995043)
They're already at 200B and the rate is currently at 10B/year and rising rapidly.

So I strongly suspect they will.

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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by titzer on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:52PM (#21996642)
Whoops, right. I forgot to subtract what they had already emitted. So it puts it more like ~20 years away.
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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by perfunctory on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:08AM (#21999380)
Did you also forget to add what US keeps emitting?
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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by nicoburns on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:24PM (#21993562)
This shows the US having per-capita emissions of roughly twice the EU and China (2017). I imagine it will be a good while until China catches up by that metric...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

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