Science homework help please!! (Climate Change)?

Question

Me and a friend are doing a project on global warming and climate change and we are stuck on one question!

On the global level, how do CO2 emissions levels differ from country to country ??

If anyone has any answers or links to a helpful site please tell us!

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks....

Answer 1

Well, if this wasn't just simply a "project" for school, i'd probably thump you hard in the head for falling for this stupid hoax. But, since its something that will get a grade,...............

First of all, the US didn't sign onto the Kyoto accord because of 2 main reasons, first of all , the most polluting countries in the world weren't going to be limited by it, but secondly, as most people already know, the air we breath is everywhere. The wind travels all over the planet. Sure, the Equator has its Duldrums, but there are wind patterns all over the planet that shift and move by its region, latitude and cold/warm front activity. So, if any country is causing a problem....whether it be co2 emissions, or spewing arsenic into the atmosphere, eventually it will spread out in the atmosphere and everyone could potentially feel the effects....depending on how poisonous the substance is.

In the case of co2....ASSUMING that global warming was actually happening due to the 'greenhouse' effect, then you would see more localized heating in the area's that co2 is more heavily created, but this co2 will eventually spread out and even out across the entire planet.

Consider the spread similar to the ash that fell hundreds of miles away from Mt Saint Helen's when it blew. Proving the greenhouse effect itself is pretty useless on a world scale, since temps have been inaccurately measured and they've been actually staying constant or going down, not up. So in the laboratory is the only place a co2 experiment would work. So you might want to compare your model based on volcanic eruptions. The wind patterns and directions would be roughly the same regarding the spread.

Answer 2

Here is a list of CO2 emissions by country as of 2004:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_emissio...

Answer 3

I think it is important to specify "human" emissions since there are natural emissions as well and it isn't technically accurate to assume all emissions are human.

Answer 4

The US Energy Information Administration is a good source for information on these things:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/internationa...

EDIT: I'D LIKE WHOEVER GAVE ME AND THE FIRST ANSWERER THUMBS DOWN TO PLEASE CONTACT ME AND LET ME KNOW WHY. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW GIVING A FACTUAL ANSWER TO A DIRECT QUESTION COULD POSSIBLY MERIT A THUMBS DOWN.

Answer 5

This site should help you and it has links to other sites.  Good luck :)

www.worldenergy.org