A fascinating fact about this graph: CO2 / GDP converged substantially over those 20 years. This seems like a good thing (?)
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CO2 emissions per capita and per unit GDP, in 1990 and in 2010, for the 5 largest emitters. This is an amazingly informative graph, IMO. From Robert Henson's "The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change".pic.twitter.com/FMW1cAtcm9
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This is also an utterly fascinating table. I was surprised by many of the leading CO2 / capita and CO2 / GDP emitters:pic.twitter.com/XuoffDs7dE
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The scale of CO2 / GDP is amazing. Roughly half a kilo of CO2 per dollar of GDP! Every 100-200 dollars you spend is (on average) your bodyweight in CO2 emissions!
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I am, by the way, learning a lot from this book in general. Henson's "The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change". Also recommend the IPCC report. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Persons-Guide-Climate-Change-ebook/dp/B014RCVH76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546556950&sr=8-1&keywords=henson+thinking+person%27s … (new edition coming in Feb) and https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/
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One drawback of the book: there's too much reporting of extreme weather events ("The hottest day in such-and-such-a-place" type stories). This kind of thing is subject to extreme selection / reporting biases.
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I dont get the figure description. What exactly is the size of the circle? The abs. amount of co2 emissions? Also, why does it say energy consumption?
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I assume the energy consumption is just a typo. AFAICT the size of the circles is total CO2 emissions - certainly, China's at that point was (slightly) higher than the US's, which matches the relative sizes of the circles. Not the best labelling, TBH.
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The convergence of all the countries toward something like 7 tons/person (x-axis) is interesting. An EPA site says an avg car yields 4.6 tons/year; that sort of gives a scale. Tesla & the like will be necessary to nudge this attractor to the left.
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That really is a very clear depiction of some very interesting data points.
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