Watermelon Environmentalists Cause Global Warming

UN Communists Hide In Global Warming Trojan Horse


(HT: Daily Caller)



The UN Believes This Is How To Fight Global Warming

The UN Believes This Is How To Fight Global Warming

To demonstrate just how wrong Christiana Figueres and her cohorts at the UN truly are, we look at two pieces of data. The United States Government tracks CO2 pollution by nation, by year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. They are properly diligent in making this data available to the public. The table below** displays the world’s top 10 CO2 polluters by nation for 2010.

Rank Nation Metric Tons CO2
1 China 2259856
2 USA 1481608
3 India 547811
4 Russia 474714
5 Japan 319257
6 Germany 203268
7 Iran 155880
8 Korea 154777
9 Canada 136116
10 UK 134580

We then compare these pollution stats to how much economic output each of these polluter nations produces. The World Bank tracks national GDPs by country by year. The 2010 GDPs in Base Year USD $M for each top 10 CO2 polluter nation follows below.

Rank Nation GDP USD $M
1 USA 14,582,400
2 China 5,878,629
3 Japan 5,497,813
4 Germany 3,309,669
6 UK 2,246,079
9 India 1,729,010
10 Canada 1,574,052
11 Russia 1,479,819
14 Korea, Rep. 1,014,483
29 Iran 331,015

So to finish walking the dog on this analysis, we can take the GDP and divide it by the polluter nation’s CO2 emissions***. This allows us to evaluate what trade-off we make every time one of the top 10 CO2 polluters emits another ton. Lower dollar figures indicate a greater environmental cost per dollar of GDP produced. It can also allow us to run back-of-the-envelope experiments such as determining how much CO2 China or Japan would have to emit to produce the US 2010 GDP. My own tabulation of this experiment follows below.

Rank Nation $M GDP/Tons CO2 Tons CO2 to Produce US GDP
1 Japan 17.221 846,797.313
2 UK 16.690 873,744.598
3 Germany 16.282 895,598.709
4 Canada 11.564 1,261,011.681
5 USA 9.842 1,481,608.000
6 Korea 6.554 2,224,798.370
7 India 3.156 4,620,215.668
8 Russia 3.117 4,677,916.308
9 China 2.601 5,605,749.935
10 Iran 2.124 6,867,074.036

If Christiana Figueres were to arrive in New York and announce that the United States had a lot to learn from other countries in reducing CO2 pollution per unit of wealth produced, I would find her obnoxious but impossible to refute. She veers into the self-serving Leftist stupid when she claims we should be learning it from the Communist Chinese. The top 10 CO2 polluter nations produced about $37.5 Trillion in national wealth. At the USA’s rate of CO2 pollution, these nations would have emitted 3.8 Million Tons. At Japan’s rate, they would collectively emitted 2.2 Million Tons; at China’s rate….14.5 million.

Pace Christiana Figueres; the United States needs to learn and do better on this issue. Contra the dishonest, UN Watermelon Environmentalist, we sure don’t need to be learning from a Communist dictatorship. If we accepted her prescription, and the UN was truly correct about CO2 impacts on terrestrial climate, then Watermelon Environmentalists would cause Global Warming.

*- Watermelon Environmentalist: Green on the outside, red in the middle.
** – (HT:HTML.am) for the table source code.
***- We’ll call this our Dead Millibear Index (HT:Al Gore)

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