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Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough."

by vbo on Tue Dec 8th, 2009 at 01:30:59 AM EST
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In other news: Middlesbrough (pop 140.000) now producing as much carbon dioxide as Morocco (pop 32 mill.)

Snark aside: I found this site while looking for real numbers.

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/meth_reg.html

Quite interesting... According to these numbers, per capita CO2 emissions from non-renewable resources peaked in both the US and Britain in the early 70's, and have been relatively stable since then. In France and Germany the peak was 1979.

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/emissions/usa.dat
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/emissions/uki.dat

by Trond Ove on Tue Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:23:51 AM EST
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