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| Laugher: China Urges US to Join Kyoto |
| 2005-12-01 |
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| #9 Bu Hao! |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-12-01 15:43 |
| #8 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/CarbonHydrology/ Contrary to popular opinion, when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, the United States cannot accurately be labeled as all give and no take. In fact, of the 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide our consumer driven country coughs up a year, roughly 15 to 30 percent is reabsorbed back into the land. Other studies have indicated even more carbon is "reabsorbed" making North America a minimal producer verging on a negative net. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2005-12-01 10:57 |
| #7 Glen, I googled a number of sites on this issue. As you can imagine there is data all over the place. But in general it seems the US and China have comparable $GDP/BTU. This makes sense when you consider that the majority of China is in rural poverty and most of the manufactured GDP is created in coastal enclaves for export. In the US, There is a lot more transportation into the interior, think Interstate highways, and houses are a lot bigger. China is also very low on the GDP per capita scale, so it should have a much better marginal $GDP/BTU than the US as it picks the low hanging fruit. Were they to rise to the US level of GDP per capita and income distribution, it is likely they would use energy less efficiently. |
| Posted by: Gleretch Ulaviling1097 2005-12-01 10:47 |
| #6 What is the Chinese gross economic productivity per energy unit or per emmission unit? How does it compare to US ratio? (I can guess the answer, but am curious about the actual numbers.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2005-12-01 08:54 |
| #5 … adding it was unfair to expect |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2005-12-01 07:26 |
| #4 Dear China: How about you first? |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-12-01 06:15 |
| #3 *their |
| Posted by: ryuge 2005-12-01 06:10 |
| #2 You'd think they would at least wait until they took care of there benzene contaminated water problem before lecturing us on how to manage the enviroment. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2005-12-01 06:09 |
| #1 Funny, I was just going to invite the ChiComs to kiss my ass. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-12-01 00:14 |