Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead in heat wave

Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:29AM (#27738359)

Per-capita emissions may be fair if it looked at where products are consumed, but in my experience the data only looks at emissions produced divided by population. Producer countries like China and especially Canada with their energy industry will look worse than they actually are because other countries have effectively outsourced their CO2 emissions to these countries.

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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by chmod775 on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:39AM (#27738447)

That's very true.

You have the option of either attributing these emissions to the consuming country, or to not do so and hope that it creates a trade-equilibrium as a side-effect, where each country produces within their CO2 limits.

Either way, even though China is a producer country and far from being clean or sustainable, its emissions are still way behind certain large first world countries.

We (that is North America and the heart of Europe save France) really need to make more of an effort, only if to not look like massive hypocrites when we ask China to turn green.

There is a large push towards nuclear within China right now though - with a lot of research coming out of that country as well - they might beat us to the punch anyways.

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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by kergonath on Monday July 05, 2021 @11:13AM (#27738785)

> that is North America and the heart of Europe save France

Rest assured that France is really keen on carbonising its electricity supply and closing a significant number of its nuclear plants, thus going back into the fold of its European neighbours. Stupidity knows no border.

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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by rocknor on Monday July 05, 2021 @12:01PM (#27739282)

We do have that data:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...

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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:18PM (#27741912)

Thanks very much! Following through a list of source links this seems to be the primary source for that data:

https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/9/3247/2012/bg-9-3247-201...

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