CO2 emissions
As the home of the industrial revolution, the UK essentially produced all of the world's CO2 emissions until other countries caugh up. But in what year did we stop being the world's biggest CO2 producer? 1888, when the US overtook us.The CO2 emissions in those early days were relatively large (all these figures come from Oak Ridge laboratory). By 1800 the UK is thought to have been producing 0.027 bn tonnes of CO2, compared with today's total of about 0.56 bn tonnes, so 5% of today's total. Furthermore by 1900 US C02 output was higher than the UK's today, whereas the UK's on that date was 0.42 bn tonnes, only 25% less than today.
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posted by Matthew @ 3/05/2007 11:35:00 AM
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