What are the Top Ten contributing countries towards global warming?

Question

And/Or is the U.S. one of them?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

None. It is cooling now.

Answer 3

There are no countries contributing significantly to AGW. The sole perpetrator is...................THE SUN!

Answer 4

THE TOP 20 CARBON DIOXIDE EMITTERS

1. United States

2. China (mainland)

3. Russian Federation

4. India

5. Japan

6. Germany

7. Canada  

8. United Kingdom

9. Republic of Korea

10. Italy (including San Marino)

11. Mexico

12. South Africa

13. Iran

14. Indonesia

15. France (including Monaco)

16. Brazil

17. Spain

18. Ukraine

19. Australia

20. Saudi Arabia

Answer 5

I agree with the one list with the exception that China has surpassed the United States in total emissions but with 4 times the people it's net per person is lower.

Answer 6

That's not easy to determine, since people who compose those lists have an agenda to push.  The IPCC is a United Nations organization that favors developing countries, so they won't publish a list that shows China as the largest current CO2 emitter and one of the largest growing sources (building 2 new coal fired power plants per week).  

Black carbon pollution has recently been determined to be a major contributing factor, but since it's produced by cooking over fires and by major industrial pollution, that's also worst in developing nations and the IPCC won't be telling you that.

The only lists I've seen focus on CO2 only.  

One version of the country list looks at cumulative CO2 emissions, but is it fair to ask today's children pay for the rest of their lives for the sins of past generations?  Surely not.

Another version looks at current emissions (this can be hard to find because it reveal's the fast-growing role of "developing" nations).  That too is highly prejudicial because it is used to make the claim that people living in countries near the top of the list make choices that put them there.  Do people in the United States choose to build suburbs far from places of employment?  I was born into this infrastructure, I did not choose it.  Did officials in California ask me before allowing the state's population to double, so more people could park on freeways for hours in commute traffic?  I sure didn't get asked!  Do they ask me now before allowing another million immigrants per year to come in and upgrade their low impact to America's high one?  No!  Am I responsible for Bush going back on his campaign promises to address global warming?  No, I think he should be impeached at a minimum, perhaps put on trial for treason if he's deliberately and knowingly risking American lives in the future.

I was not involved and am not involved in making the poor choices that brought us to this point.  I can't simply walk out of my house and reduce my impact to that of a nomadic tribesman living in Zimbabwe.  

If human existance on this earth is truly threatened (and I believe it is), what good would it do to single out a few countries as scapegoats?  We all need to reduce our impact globally, or we all die.  Focusing on small lists of countries will only cause us to take our eyes off of the ball, and billions of people will die as a result.  

Vilifying the U.S. will only isolate it and fuel its military growth.  The U.N.'s strategy will fail.  Dramatically.  They need to find a more inclusive position while there's still time.