The US and Australia are clearly Carbon Hogs. It's even worse when you think that much of those Chinese emissions comes from producing goods going straight into American malls. Oink.
Soren
23 February 2010
Vive la France
Google has a nice ability to search across public data sets. Okay, René, I have to give credit where it is due: France is doing quite well. Both Germany and the UK have brought down per capita emissions quite a bit. When will China, which was still considered a developing country in Copenhagen, surpass France in per capita emissions?
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This is cool. What's the name of the Google product you are using?
ReplyDeleteHi Steven - if you do a plan google search, say, "co2 emissions germany" it will come up as the top result with a mini-graph. You can follow the link and interact with it. I discovered it quite by accident.
ReplyDeleteWolframAlpha has a great view as well but it isn't embeddable from what I can tell. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=co2+emissions+germany
Great find. Interested in your work. Ping me if you're ever in the Chippendale/Broadway area and open to having coffee.
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France's overall good result, compared to other OECD countries, stems from an energy mix relying on nukes and hydropower (no GHG emissions at all in the operating phase)!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how misguided statistics can appear from a single snapshot, ie., your comment on Chinese emissions for US strip malls. The US looks like they've been stagnant for 30 years, when this is clearly not the case, both with climbing per cap energy usage and declining energy intensity per $ GDP.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. Carbon intensity has gone down by a lot from 1980 from 1,131 to 632 Metric Tons Carbon Dioxide Equivalent per Million Chained (2000) Dollars. Is this from the manufacturing base going overseas or the growth of the service sector? Other countries have reduced emissions more. Is that because they got cleaner or a decline in energy intensive industries.
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In the same time the population grew from 225MM to 304MM.