Comments on: Capitalism Still Destroying Global Warming

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:26:35 +0000

For the record, I started my snowman the day before the snowDalek. I had to prioritize when I found out had to draw a Dalek for that night.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:01:56 +0000

Dan, I was actually making fun of Steve’s recent penchant for just copying wholesale other people’s posts, and acting like he’s providing his usual trenchant commentary.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:49:17 +0000

Mitch was commenting on the header change and not your response to the story. Hit refresh on your browser if you don’t see a change in header.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:58:57 +0000

Mitch: I fail to see how USB pertains to anything I said.

Michael: if that is the explanation, graphing out the change over time in US greenhouse gas emissions per capita should reveal that it follows a pattern of exponential decay, right?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:54:52 +0000

“Or are you trying to offer the alternative explanation that because the US greenhouse gas emissions are already so high, the per capita emissions can’t increase rapidly because they are nearing some sort of ceiling in the US?”

yep.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:15:42 +0000

Also the Mortal Kombat snowman is truly capital. It should be the logo for a Canadian college’s athletic endeavors. (The U of Yukon’s Fightin’ Voodoo Snowmen.)

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:12:10 +0000

I see the copy/paste feature on your computer works, even if USB doesn’t.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:33:39 +0000

“Another case of misleading statistics. The US of A produces 22% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1997 our annual emissions have grown 100 million metric tons. The US expells roughly 1.6 billion metric tons per year. For comparison, the UK makes about 158 million metric tons, Canada 154 million, Germany 235 million. Since 1997 we have expelled 12.5 billion (12,500,000,000) metric tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.”

I fail to see how these statistics are misleading. Neither method of information presentation should be misleading to the intelligent consumer of information.

Or are you trying to offer the alternative explanation that because the US greenhouse gas emissions are already so high, the per capita emissions can’t increase rapidly because they are nearing some sort of ceiling in the US?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:55:09 +0000

Another case of misleading statistics. The US of A produces 22% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1997 our annual emissions have grown 100 million metric tons. The US expells roughly 1.6 billion metric tons per year. For comparison, the UK makes about 158 million metric tons, Canada 154 million, Germany 235 million. Since 1997 we have expelled 12.5 billion (12,500,000,000) metric tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

The only country that comes close to us is China, which also has about 5 times as many people. Their rapid economic growth has led their emissions to increase a great deal.

So I thank George W. Bush for slowing our economy, thereby slowing the growth of our greenhouse gas emissions.

The US still has the 2nd highest per capita emissions, right behind Luxembourg. This is the number that needs to change before we start patting ourselves on the back.