China’s Cumulative CO2 Is Triple The UK’s
By Paul Homewood
On the topic of climate blackmail reparations, the charge from developing nations is that the UK and others in the West began putting out emissions long ago in the 19thC. They argue that it is the cumulative effect of this which matters, not our current emissions.
However, as the above chart shows, our historic emissions pale into insignificance when compared with China’s. Since 1850, UK emissions total 74 billion tonnes, whereas China’s are now at 235 billion tonnes.
Even the Indian sub-continent is already responsible for 61 billion tonnes cumulatively, and on current trends will have caught us up withing five years.
If there is any justification at all for “reparations”, India should pay the same as us, and China three times as much.
Of course this never had anything to do with the climate, it is all about punishing rich countries.
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The point of this graph should not be emissions guilt or reparations. The UK became the first industrialized nation using fossil energy and dominated 19th century politics and trade. The US took over at the top industrialized nation in the 20th century with fossil energy and abundant natural resources. Any guess who is going to dominate the 21st century economically and politically?
Do you not think that since China has about 20 times the UK population that should be taken into account. Also that they now do all the manufacturing for the goods that the West now enjoy and China is emitting what is our CO2.
Hilarious how the Left continue to try to find any excuse to give China a fools pardon.
Well industrial demand for electricity in the UK has fallen by 20% since the year 2000. Some is down to better technology but the largest part is due to offshoring industry to China. The same is true for the US and Europe. This is a matter of fact and has nothing to do with excusing China.
Nick, either CO2 is or isn’t a serious threat to the climate/planet. As soon as you start arguing that you have to be ‘fair’ and allow every person in every country an equal proportion, and therefore continuing emitting CO2 an an exponential rate that dwarfs total emissions since the start of the industrial revolution, you’ve destroyed any credible claim of an emergency and any need for action at all.
CO2 is not a serious threat to the climate nor the planet.
Good point about population Nick – clearly, China should be on the hook for 20 times that of the U.K. 🙂
So what, Nick?
It appears to have escaped your attention that China has no interest in the AGW hoax and is gleefully exploiting the West’s obsession with a vital trace gas for as much as they can screw out of us.
Quite right Nick, visit Our World in Data and set the CO2 graph to be based on comsumption and per capita and the UK is above both China and India.
And all the green growing things in the World are grateful to us for it.
It is just penance (punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing). All this climate crap is now a new religion.
Sure China make stuff for us. They therefore get the profits from whih they can afford reparations. If they can take time out from persecuting minorities and running a police state.
We are talking about CO2 emissions.
Why are we talking about CO2 emissions but not how beneficial CO2 is ?
What, the highly beneficial CO2 emissions that have caused the Earth to gain around 20% extra vegetation over the last two or three decades and are primarily responsible for the increase in food that has raised vast numbers of its population from near starvation?
THOSE CO2 emissions?
And with a half life of, what 25 years, our earlier emissions will be long since gone.
I would just love to see a whole tonne of CO2! TRIPE!
How big is the container?
It depends if you want 1 tonne mass or 1 tonne weight
I have just read on Turbulent Times of a feature of the dreaded ‘Smart’ meters that I was not aware of but not surprised. They can be remotely changed from a credit meter to a pre-paid meter. This of course means you have to pay a higher rate. It is part of the suppliers policy of making you self-disconnect if you can’t afford to pay which avoids having to follow the legal route to disconnect or even to change the meter. And for added laughs, even when you can’t afford to have any electricity you are racking up standing charges which will be taken first should you feed some shillings to the meter.
When the UK started industrialisation, global emissions would’ve been so low that nature would’ve had no problem in absorbing them. While images of Dark Satanic Mills are very impressive, the amount of fossil fuels burnt was not significant in the scheme of things.
The amount of fossil fuels burnt remain insignificant in the scheme of things.
Exactly.
John Doran.
The long term CO2 is more beneficial because the plants have had longer to remove it from the atmosphere. We know that plant growth increases as the CO2 level increases with the effect being between 40-80% of the CO2 level increase. Thus almost all of the UK CO2 has been turned into plants and eaten by animals including ourselves.