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Al Gore Is So Wrong
Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, as reported by the NY Times:
...he singled out the United States and China — the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide — for failing to meet their obligations in mitigating emissions. They should “stop using each other’s behavior as an excuse for stalemate,” he said.
Much as I love him, Gore's sentiment here is just not fair -- to China. There is simply no reasonable comparison between the two nations. We're not equally responsible for the problem. Not even close.
Considering the last 115 years -- you know, the period that caused climate change -- North America is reponsible for more than 3 times as much global warming pollution as China, North Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam put together.
And that's not the half of it.
