Kinda interesting depiction of the relative size of each nation’s carbon emissions:
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from Stanford Kay Studios
hat tip Political Calculations
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April 30th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Thanks BR, another interesting chart! Thanks for a great site.
This chart shows total emissions per country, as labeled, without regard to the population of each country.
According to the notes at the two links above, a chart of total emissions per person is in the works.
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“In the final version of this information graphic there will be a second footprint of per capita emissions by nations. That will be a very different picture. The leader in per capita emissions is Gibraltar followed by the Virgin Islands. The U.S. drops down to number twelve and China falls way down the list due to its large population.”
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Interesting indeed would be this TBD per capita chart.
A further refinement — of emissions per unit of GDP (not sure how one might assess this globally) — would also be interesting IMO.
Have a good weekend.
April 30th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
More relevant would be a per capita chart (good to know its in the works) – or a chart of the past 50 years cumulative carbon release, relative to average population size in that same period.
April 30th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
If less is better then North Korea has some things to teach the south
April 30th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
If any of you wonder why countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran have such large carbon footprints with such small populations and economies, it is because they flare off most of their natural gas as a waste product (great market for oil, not many pipelines for that gas). If you have ever seen a nighttime satellite view of the entire Earth, you would think the middle east had lots of huge lit up cities.
I also wonder if they have taken into consideration all the slash and burn that third world countries do. It’s not coming out of a factory, car, or smokestack, and would be hard to quantify.
April 30th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Great chart. Needs adjustment for population.
@TerryC: Nice observation.
April 30th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Net energy and the economy presentation at the 2011 Biophysical Economics Meeting:
http://questioneverything.typepad.com/
April 30th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
by the way, we almost had our own Fukushima scenario last week with those tornados:
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/apr/30/nuclear-sirens-conk-out-storm/
April 30th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
How meaningful is it to group carbon emissions by political region?
For example, how much carbon is emitted in China and Germany for the production of goods exported to other countries?
Countries with a lot of nuclear electricity generation tend to reduce their carbon emissions. Is this a good thing or is this a bad thing?
How much carbon is emitted in the oil production and refining process? Does OPEC and Russia emit carbon for the benefit of the west?
We live in a global economy and, if carbon emissions are a problem, they are a global problem.
April 30th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
You still believe in global warming alarmism? Even though most of the predictions made by alarmists and the IPCC are turning to be wrong?
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BR: Amazing that you can look at a infograph of carbon production, with exactly zero mention of global warming, and yet your tiny idealogical lizard brain immediately kneejerks into your the usual foolishness.
FAIL
May 1st, 2011 at 1:06 am
Based on kilograms of CO2 per dollar of GDP, we don’t look so bad.
Drill, baby, drill.
May 1st, 2011 at 4:03 am
Speaking of carbon emissions Barry, do you evaluate a company’s emissions or other sustainability indicators when you make investment decisions?
May 1st, 2011 at 6:29 am
DL is right. CO2/GDP is more meaningful…….otherwise deluded consumer nations believe they’re morally superior for exporting production to emerging economies.
May 1st, 2011 at 6:41 am
This is not a “blame the citizens” chart — its merely a global overview.
O course, you can show this per capita or by GDP — but those are different charts focusing on specific things.
This is merely an overview in a cute structure. Roll with it…
May 1st, 2011 at 7:41 am
We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!
We’d all be happier if we just treated our countries like we were the parents of a 3-year-old playing T-ball for the first time….
May 1st, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Hey TerryC:
correction, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia no longer flare off their associated gas (produced with oil); they use it as feedstock in petrochem’s complexes, fuel for electric power generation and desalinization plants. You are correct about Iran; ad to the list of flarers: Nigeria, Russia and Mexico.
About the chart: it’ll be interesting to fast forward it say 10 years and see the effect of the many hundred millions, possibly a couple of billion of people from China, India, and the rest of the Emerging World who will have entered the happy life of high C footprint that is today reserved only to their richer (and envied) brethren. I read that China alone is commissioning one coal fired power plant per week (yes) to keep up with the growing demand for electric power there. Any thoughts?
May 2nd, 2011 at 1:03 am
Is the amount of green plant life per country taken into account?
I would think Brazil, with it’s abundant plant life, water, and sunshine scrubs a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere, while Saudi Arabia, for example does not.
Should a country that removes a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere have a larger CO2 emission quota?
What about CH4 emissions, which are more potent than CO2 emissions. I bet New Zealand, with 10 million sheep, emits a lot of CH4.