I am getting seriously sick and tired of hearing Australian politicians repeating on and on how we emit “ONLY” 1.5 percent of world’s greenhouse gasses.
Well, here are my numbers, you make up your own mind.
Population of Australia: 21,779,230 – Source
World’s population: 6,784,073,287 – Source
Which means that we are 0.321 percent of the world’s population, which in turn means that per capita we emit around 5 times more that any other nation in the world.
Should somebody tell them, or should we keep it our little secret?
Belinda Fraser
I think it is best to keep it a secret… shhh…
BrainCandy:
Yes, we better…
That’s not even taking all the coal we export into consideration.
leecemee
I think your complex calculations have confounded them all…
anyhow… all that global warming stuff is the ranting of misguided people anyway… steve fielding told me so… burn, baby burn!
BrainCandy:
Considering the temperature in Melbourne, I say: Global warming, bring it on!
Col Finnie
Last I heard is that it’s all going to get real ugly in about 50 years. I’ll probably be dead then…so that’s all right.