{"id":228451,"date":"2022-11-10T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228451"},"modified":"2022-11-10T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:15:35","slug":"chinas-cumulative-co2-is-triple-the-uks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228451","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Cumulative CO2 Is Triple the UK\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"510\" data-attachment-id=\"228453\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=228453\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?fit=1024%2C723&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,723\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0annual-co2-emissions-per-country\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?fit=723%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?resize=723%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228453\" title=\"annual-co2-emissions-per-country\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?resize=768%2C542&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On the topic of climate&nbsp;blackmail&nbsp;reparations, the charge from developing nations is that the UK and others in the West began putting out emissions long ago in the 19thC. They argue that it is the cumulative effect of this which matters, not our current emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, as the above chart shows, our historic emissions pale into insignificance when compared with China\u2019s. Since 1850, UK emissions total 74 billion tonnes, whereas China\u2019s are now at 235 billion tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Even the Indian sub-continent is already responsible for 61 billion tonnes cumulatively, and on current trends will have caught us up withing five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If there is any justification at all for \u201creparations\u201d, India should pay the same as us, and China three times as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this never had anything to do with the climate, it is all about punishing rich countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">November 10, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/10\/chinas-cumulative-co2-is-triple-the-uks\/\">China\u2019s Cumulative CO2 Is Triple The UK\u2019s | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the topic of climate\u00a0blackmail\u00a0reparations, the charge from developing nations is that the UK and others in the West began putting out emissions long ago in the 19thC. They argue that it is the cumulative effect of this which matters, not our current emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":228453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0annual-co2-emissions-per-country.png?fit=1024%2C723&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-XqH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":229908,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=229908","url_meta":{"origin":228451,"position":0},"title":"Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The attribution of liability for loss and damage arising from \u201cclimate change\u201d is far from the straightforward matter of natural justice that many campaigners naively believe. 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