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Moreover, the failure of developed countries – particularly, the US – to take responsibility for their historical emissions of greenhouse gases continues, representing a major sticking point because these emissions far surpass those of the developing world.
Not only has China recently become the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, but the pace of its future emissions is expected to far exceed forecasts.
A breakthrough like this highlights one of the many ways in which ordinary people and businesses can reduce energy use and cut greenhouse gases.
Last year it also became the leading emitter of greenhouse gases.
In addition to adapting to climate change, the world must also reduce future risks to the planet by cutting back on emissions of greenhouse gases, which are the source of man-made climate change.
The effort to reduce greenhouse gases will require decades of action, but, given the long lead times in overhauling the world’s energy systems, we must start now.
At the same time, of course, human consumption of fossil fuels, together with our agricultural activities, have caused substantial increases in concentrations of “greenhouse” gases – CO2 by 30% and methane by more than 100%.
Providing more people with access to electricity would have necessitated emitting more greenhouse gases, aggravating the consequences of climate change.
Testing the Limits of Fossil FuelsMILAN – Most people recognize that human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels, is contributing mightily to an increasing level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
These gases, particularly CO2, increase the risk of damage to the world’s climate.
Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the magnitude of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate.
Despite the IPCC’s target for annual per capita CO2 emissions, we still do not know how much warming various levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause.
Because combating climate change entails making decisions at different points over a long period of time, a key aspect to addressing the problem is to recognize that as stocks of greenhouse gases rise, we will learn more about the distribution of possible outcomes.
That can be changed by adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere – the so-called greenhouse gases, which absorb long-wave radiation on its way out and send some of it back towards the surface.
Perhaps nobody has described it more succinctly than the British physicist John Tyndall, who was the first to measure the effect in his laboratory in 1859 for a number of gases, including CO2.
We know from measurements that greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere.
That is one of several reasons why hardly any serious climate scientist doubts that greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming.
The people wanting big slices are the countries that would like to emit large quantities of greenhouse gases.
For the atmosphere, that would mean calculating what quantity of greenhouse gases the world as a whole can safely emit up to a given date, and dividing that by the current population of the world.
That yields everyone’s per capita share of the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb our greenhouse gases, up to the selected date.
The US currently has less than 5% of the world’s population, but emits nearly 15% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
India, by contrast, has 17% of the world’s population and emits less than 6% of its greenhouse gases, so it would be entitled to almost three times its current emissions.
A different principle of fairness arises if we consider greenhouse gases as pollution, and apply the principle that whoever caused the pollution should pay to clean it up.
The reason that climate change is a problem now is that over the past two centuries, some countries have been putting large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
No country has emitted more greenhouse gases over this period than the US.
That is a reason to require the US to make deeper cuts now than other countries must make, especially given that the US is continuing to emit greenhouse gases at a much higher per capita rate than other large emitters, such as China and India.
Other countries can claim that the US has already used up its historical per capita share of the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, and they should be entitled to emit more in the future so that we will at least come closer to equal per capita shares over time.
It makes no difference where greenhouse gases are emitted.
The American Meteorological Society promptly wrote to Pruitt saying that it is “indisputable” that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are the primary cause of global warming, and that it is “not familiar with any scientific institution with relevant subject matter expertise that has reached a different conclusion.”
And, third, realistic solutions are possible, which will allow the world to combine economic development and control of greenhouse gases.
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