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Originally Posted by MartinSykes
Whether individuals have reduced CO2 or not is always going to be hard to tell because it's so hard to measure at source.
The big picture which is all that really matters is that global atmospheric CO2 concentrations are still rising so whatever people are doing, it's not enough. (source: Trends in Carbon Dioxide) |
Good point, this earlier thread reported similar trends for the EU (and elsewhere):
2007: Increased Energy-related Carbon Dioxide Emissions (U.S. Estimate)
So, while the data quoted in at the beginning of this thread suggests a drop over the period of 1990 to 2006, it appears that over 2007 there was an increase. But regardless of what the individual national "reporting" says, the overall NOAA trends seem to be the most instructive and significant. It also simply shows the CO2 levels, without the diversion of attempting to relate it to causality in trends of other parameters.