OECD Countries Not Responsible For Most Of Historical CO2 Emissions
October 22, 2015
By Paul Homewood
h/t Robin Guenier
With developing countries wanting the West to pay climate reparations, it is worth looking at what the IPCC AR5 had to say about CO2 emissions, in the Technical Summary:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_ar5_technical-summary.pdf
OECD countries have contributed much less than 50% of cumulative CO2 emissions between 1750 and 2010.
Since then, of course, the percentage will have dropped further, as OECD share of emissions has been less than 40%.
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Yes, that would put paid to the pro-reparation argument.
Wait. Let’s look at the data on a per capita basis. Ah, much better. Reparations back on the table!
Follow the money.
I have recently been looking at the atmospheric CO2 balance.
The temperature dependence of the theoretical split between air and seas is not easily got at, as its not just a Henry’s Law effect. However, if one accepts that the earth mean temperature has risen by 1 deg K over the last century, Henry’s Law alone would account for the rise in atmospheric CO2 partial pressure, and the anthropogenic contribution would be negligible. It is odd that the measurements have not followed a more linear growth than they seem to have done, but the oceans do not “humangenise” the temperature.
The computer models do not properly incorporate clouds which are where most of the recycle occurs: cloud behaviour is well outside of what can be modelled. IPCC seem to conveniently ignore the fact that historically temperature has risen before CO2. When the next cooling cycle occurs we can expect atmospheric CO2 to fall again.
Further to the above stats, would it not be fair to consider the destination of all the goods and materials produced by the countries that were first to industrialise?
Today we often hear that much of China’s emissions should be attributed to the countries which buy the goods made there. Go back to, say, before WWII and the US and the UK were the “workshops of the world”….but where did the goods and materials which they produced end up?
Go back further and the UK was probably the major CO2 emitter prior to the 20th century but the majority of our indutrial output was exported.
I wonder what the graphs would look like if the historic emissions were allocated to the end-users of the products and materials instead of to the producers?
Absolutely right. At least if they ever get round to correcting the hypocrisy (rather, self deception) of allocating CO2 emissions themselves, rather than the consumption of goods that generate CO2 in their lifecycle, we might save some jobs as well!
you might get a different picture if you look only at fossil fuel and cement emissions
Not everyone is as well acronym-versed. OECD = Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development.
So, because the West has been responsible for a lot of the plant food also poor countries have enjoyed, perhaps the poor countries actually should pay for the extra food they have gotten up to now. Now that China and India provide more of the plant food, perhaps the poor countries that has never contributed should start paying?
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