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Canada seeks 'special' status on warming
Maybe Canada should get into the EU's burden sharing agreement with varying CO2 reduction targets. Then Canada could be treated like other "special" countries for example
France and Finland with 'targets' of 0% reduction
Sweden --- 4% increase
Ireland -- 13% increase
Spain ---- 15% increase
Greece --- 25% increase
Portugal - 27% increase
http://www.climnet.org/resources/euburden.htm
alan,
While there is a point somewhere to be made with these numbers, I'm sure, you do have to realize that if you would look at for instance per capita emissions in Canada vs these countries back in 1990, there is no real comparison.
Spain, Portugal and Greece were all stifling dictatorships till the mid 1970's, with no industry to speak of, and donkeys providing much of the labor.. Ireland was a 3rd world country until recently.
27% of very little is a whole lot less than the close to 40% increase in Canada on what it was already emitting 17 years ago. And presenting it the way you do "falsifies the discussion". I don't say that you mean to do that, but it still does.
It's like calling China and India the world's biggest polluters, something you can see reported on a regular basis these days. That is a false point though. Per capita, the US and Canada still pollute 6-7 times more than China.
To get to a level playing field, we would have to reduce our emissions by some 80% first.