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Created by: Olivier On 02/07/2008
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Tones of carbon equivalent per capita

This graphic represents the CO2 emission in tones of carbon equivalent per capita.
 
In this graphic we can see that the USA and Australia are the world leaders in CO2 production per capita with respectively 6.7 and 6.2 tones of equivalent carbon per capita per year.
 
We can also see that even though India and China are rapidly increasing their emission, they are fare away from developed country. India’s emission per capita is 11 times lover than the US.
 
The large variation between France and Germany or England is due to the France Nuclear energy production.
Source: Olivier

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Comments:

Confused > From: net_efekt > On: 11/10/2008 8:11:52 AM
Actually, per capita, the US ins't the biggest polluter...

See Wikipedia or NationMaster:

#1 Qatar: 40.6735 per 1,000 people
#2 United Arab Emirates: 28.213 per 1,000 people
#3 Kuwait: 25.0499 per 1,000 people
#4 Bahrain: 20.0253 per 1,000 people
#5 United States: 19.4839 per 1,000 people
#6 Luxembourg: 17.977 per 1,000 people
#7 Trinidad and Tobago: 16.8278 per 1,000 people
#8 Australia: 16.5444 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 15.8941 per 1,000 people
#10 Singapore: 13.8137 per 1,000 people
#11 Czech Republic: 12.115 per 1,000 people
#12 Belgium: 12.0632 per 1,000 people
#13 Palau: 11.9096 per 1,000 people
#14 Estonia: 11.1657 per 1,000 people
#15 Finland: 10.8403 per 1,000 people
#16 Russia: 10.7402 per 1,000 people
#17 Ireland: 10.6612 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 10.6545 per 1,000 people
#19 Nauru: 10.3924 per 1,000 people
#20 Germany: 10.1591 per 1,000 people
etc

Just a thought (as I've tried to do a cartogram on the subject - and it didn't quite work out graphically as well as hoped for).
Thank you for your comment > From: Admin > On: 11/12/2008 3:32:32 PM
Hello,
You are correct, I should have taken in consideration those "smaller" counties.

Population:
Qatar: 907,229
UAE: 4,496,000
Kuwait: 3,100,000
Bahrain: 698,585
Luxembourg: 480,222

Compare to:
USA: 301,139,947
Australia: 20,434,176
Belgium: 10,392,226...

It is also possible that my data are not as up to date as yours.

If you succeed on creating your map. I would be please to add it to this article. If you want you can also register and create your own article.

Thank you again for your comment.

Admin
... > From: fussball > On: 3/3/2009 3:00:05 AM
Gute Arbeit hier! Gute Inhalte.
Danke viele > From: Admin > On: 3/3/2009 11:43:25 AM
Danke viele.



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Admin
... > From: lieben > On: 3/6/2009 3:41:16 AM
Interessante Informationen.
wikipedia=evil > From: mi > On: 3/31/2009 6:06:15 AM
just so u know, cannot trust wikipedia as an acedemic. anyone can put in information

what year is the info from?
Data > From: Admin > On: 4/10/2009 1:36:10 AM
Hello,

My data are from 2008.
I do not know about the data sent in the above comment.

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Admin
misunderstanding comparison > From: Johnny > On: 6/16/2009 11:26:33 PM
We should not compare just the emission. Each of us is emitting CO2. We should rather look, how efficient we use our environment depending on our life. If we dont want to "pollute" or emit CO2, we should be rather dead.In fact its better to compare GDP with CO2 emission.
Lies, damn lies and graphics > From: mick english > On: 9/5/2009 10:22:13 AM
The graphic gives a false representation of the difference between countries. The emissions per person of the USA are approximately double the emissions of Germany. The graphic, because it uses volumes of balloons, implies that the USA emits approximately 2x2x2= 8 times Germany. To retain integrity I suggest scrapping the article - it brings your website into disrepute.
tones > From: jlc > On: 9/5/2009 11:54:39 AM
WTF is a "tone of equivalent carbon"?

Commenters on WUWT have otherwise dealt with the dishonesty of this graphic.

Move along, people. Nothing to see here.
Let's get real > From: Real facts > On: 10/29/2009 12:41:38 PM
This is nonsense, yet another graphic designed to skew the numbers to make the the Western world look like the big bad guy. This is per person. Well, since China has somewhere in excess of 5 times the number of people the US does, it pollutes FAR more than the US or Australia. Frankly, Australia isn't even close. Yet no one goes to China and tells them to shut down THEIR industry. How convenient. Probably because they'd laugh in your global warming concerned faces. Leave it to the Western world to be guilt tripped into some nonsense.
Carbon Equivalent > From: Admin > On: 11/4/2009 12:31:58 PM
Here is, in my point of view a good definition of Carbon Equivalent:

A metric measure used to compare the emissions of different greenhouse gases based upon their global warming potential (GWP). Greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. are most commonly expressed as "million metric tons of carbon equivalents" (MMTCE). Global warming potentials are used to convert greenhouse gases to carbon dioxide equivalents - they can be converted to carbon equivalents by multiplying by 12/44 (the ratio of the molecular weight of carbon to carbon dioxide). The forumula for carbon equivalents is:
MMTCE = (million metric tons of a gas) * (GWP of the gas) * (12/44)

source: http://dictionary.babylon.com/Carbon%20equivalent

Another site that might be of interest to you: http://www.leonghuat.com/articles/carbon%20equivalent.htm
... > From: Ottaman Turk > On: 11/13/2009 6:05:00 AM
hey, you mised Turkey on the info



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OMg > From: barney > On: 11/17/2009 8:51:38 AM
really thats alot from the us part how can we decress ?
To barney > From: SolutionMan > On: 8/31/2010 1:05:19 PM
- really thats alot from the us part how can we decress ? 1) Inhale 2) Don't Exhale. There...


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