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Emission ambition

10/01/2007
I hope your Aug. 27 editorial, “Restating temperatures,” (p. 19) moderates the global warming zealots, but so far it doesn’t look like it has.The Sept. 4 Wall Street Journal reported that, at the conclusion of a United Nations-sponsored climate meeting in Vienna the last week of August, diplomats issued a statement saying industrialized countries should try to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020.I just ran some quick calculations. US carbon dioxide emissions in 1990 were 4,978 million tonnes (International Energy Outlook, 2006, US Energy Information Administration). The 1990 US resident population was 249.623 million, so per capita CO2 emi...
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