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muriel_volestrangler

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2. I'm not sure how you make that into 'the culprits are China and India'

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #1)

Fri May 9, 2014, 11:49 AM

May 2014

India's growth in emissions is about the same as the lower 3 groups you've created. But we don't know how many people are in those groups, so it's hard to know if they're comparable to India - they may be roughly similar sizes at a guess, but the real figures would help a lot.

But that's growth from 1998. It's absurd to say that you measure 'current culprits' purely from growth from an arbitrary point in time.

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At the IPCC: an author's view of the recent SPM negotiations for WG3 (Mitigation) [View all] muriel_volestrangler May 2014 OP

I got an interesting result when I looked at the average growth in CO2 emissions by income group GliderGuider May 2014 #1

I'm not sure how you make that into 'the culprits are China and India' muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #2

The main purpose of the analysis was to investigate one claim in the article GliderGuider May 2014 #3

OK, I see muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #4

Yes, based on that division China would have been singled out. GliderGuider May 2014 #5

Interestingly, Saudi Arabia is in the 'high income' bracket, not the 'upper middle' muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #6

You gotta remember who your friends are... nt GliderGuider May 2014 #7