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On ‎17‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 18:21, ANGELFIRE1 said:

2015 total emissions country rank

Country

2015 total carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (million metric tons)

2015 per capita carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (metric tons)

1

China

9040.74

6.59

2

United States

4997.50

15.53

3

India

2066.01

1.58

4

Russia

1468.99

10.19

5

Japan

1141.58

8.99

6

Germany

729.77

8.93

7

South Korea

585.99

11.58

8

Iran

552.40

6.98

9

Canada

549.23

15.32

10

Saudi Arabia

531.46

16.85

11

Brazil

450.79

2.17

12

Mexico

442.31

3.66

13

Indonesia

441.91

1.72

14

South Africa

427.57

7.77

15

United Kingdom

389.75

5.99

16

Australia

380.93

15.83

17

Italy

330.75

5.45

18

Turkey

317.22

4.10

19

France

290.49

4.37

20

Poland

282.40

7.34

The UK really doe get an unfair bad wrap from some but as that chart shows, we're not that bad. What the climate zealots will say though is that the UK has the headquarters of many of the top polluting companies, but if they weren't h3adquartd here they'd only be headquarted somewhere else.

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On 19/08/2019 at 06:30, Baron99 said:

And another pair of hypocritical "Do as we say, not as we do, folk. 

 

https://www.metro.news/have-royal-pair-gone-plane-daft-over-jet-travel/1680527/

Ah but when they say people should cut down on air travel, they clearly mean the muggles, not the pure bloods. Can't have them slumming it old boy..

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We went abroad in May and September and the numbers in Spain are unsustainable 

 

The holiday industry has a lot to answer for and I think its high time something was done to stop people going abroad 

 

We paid £250 to a Climate Offset scheme hence our holiday abroad was fine. 

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1 hour ago, rogets said:

We went abroad in May and September and the numbers in Spain are unsustainable 

 

The holiday industry has a lot to answer for and I think its high time something was done to stop people going abroad 

 

We paid £250 to a Climate Offset scheme hence our holiday abroad was fine. 

Three and a half out of ten. Must try harder.

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A report by Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights states that the UK has been decarbonising at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world in the past decade. 

 

Our carbon emissions have fallen from 161 million metric tonnes in 2010 to 54 million tonnes in 2019, as we've moved away from coal & natural gas to renewables. 

 

Demand has also fallen by 13%, even though the UK population increases by 7% & GDP rose by a quarter.  

 

There's been a big jump in generating power via sustainable bio-mass, while wind power was responsible for delivering a quarter of the reduction in carbon emissions. 

 

Good response from the UK but we can still do better.  Time to start not only pointing the finger at the main pollutanters of the world, including some of those in Europe but maybe also exporting, (& earning a few quid), some of the expertise we have learnt over the past decade? 

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1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

Good response from the UK but we can still do better.  Time to start not only pointing the finger at the main pollutanters of the world, including some of those in Europe but maybe also exporting, (& earning a few quid), some of the expertise we have learnt over the past decade? 

The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990.

But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.

 

Who would you believe?

 

Britain has contributed to the global climate emergency by outsourcing its carbon emissions to developing nations, according to official figures, despite managing to weaken the domestic link between fossil fuels and economic growth.

The Office for National Statistics said the UK had become the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the G7 group of wealthy nations – outstripping the US and Japan – as a result of buying goods manufactured abroad.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/21/britain-is-g7s-biggest-net-importer-of-co2-emissions-per-capita-says-ons

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36 minutes ago, El Cid said:

The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990.

But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.

 

Who would you believe?

 

 

Well, one is a self-publicising know it all with a child-like grasp of climate change.

 

The other is Greta Thunberg.

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25 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

Well, one is a self-publicising know it all with a child-like grasp of climate change.

 

The other is Greta Thunberg.

Well done sir, or madam.

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2 hours ago, El Cid said:

The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990.

But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.

 

Who would you believe?

 

Britain has contributed to the global climate emergency by outsourcing its carbon emissions to developing nations, according to official figures, despite managing to weaken the domestic link between fossil fuels and economic growth.

The Office for National Statistics said the UK had become the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the G7 group of wealthy nations – outstripping the US and Japan – as a result of buying goods manufactured abroad.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/21/britain-is-g7s-biggest-net-importer-of-co2-emissions-per-capita-says-ons

Who would I believe? 

 

A report by Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights. 

 

Reading the Guardian link, "The ONS warned that Britain had increased its net imports of CO2 emissions per capita from 1.7 tonnes in 1992 to 5.1 tonnes in 2007",  although the report is dated 20/10/2019?  So the the earliest figures are now clearly out of date, as highlighted later in the piece, the UK has clearly turned things around in the last decade & the later figures are roughly in line with the data from Imperial College London but obviously the data in the piece from the Guardian, still carries their, to be expected, anti-Govt bias. 

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