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Offline Kosh

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Australia now the number one polluter in the world
on: September 12, 2009, 09:40:07 pm
Per capita


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British firm Maplecroft placed Australia's per capita output at 20.58 tons a year, some four percent higher than the United States and top of a list of 185 countries.

Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out the top five. China remains the world's biggest overall greenhouse gas polluter, followed by the United States.

Maplecroft added that China and India's per person carbon production came in at just 4.5 and 1.16 tons respectively, in sharp contrast to their big overall figures.
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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 10:00:21 pm
Number one per capita polluter.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 10:15:36 pm
That's what I said.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 10:25:31 pm
Woo, second place! :p
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #4 on: September 14, 2009, 08:37:35 am
That'd be like if the Vatican started a tire fire, they'd be in first. ;)
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #5 on: September 14, 2009, 09:11:20 am
those damn diggers
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #6 on: September 14, 2009, 09:20:44 am
Flame-throwers and Wallabies, it may not be environmentally friendly, but by God, it's fun....
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #7 on: September 14, 2009, 11:43:35 am
 :lol:

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #8 on: September 14, 2009, 06:01:22 pm
Quote from: Flipside on September 14, 2009, 09:20:44 am
Flame-throwers and Wallabies, it may not be environmentally friendly, but by God, it's fun....

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #9 on: September 14, 2009, 08:32:43 pm
The horrible truth is revealed; kangaroos and wallabies are really mutated animals caused by extreme pollution. :lol:
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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #10 on: September 14, 2009, 09:58:14 pm
Yeahhhh, right. Carbon dioxide is far worse "pollution" than the coal soot the thousands of coal fired power plants in China and India and other central Asian countries spew. Their pollution is so bad it makes it across the Pacific and is polluting the air over Canada and the US.
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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #11 on: September 14, 2009, 11:31:33 pm
YES, third!

Oh, wait - this one's like golf isn't it?

Anyway, in this case per capita statistics don't count for ****. China is a step away from declaring every day bring your gas mask everywhere you go so you don't asphyxiate day, but they get bumped down the list because there are more of them to poison with it.
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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #12 on: September 15, 2009, 12:08:04 am
Quote from: tinfoil on September 14, 2009, 11:31:33 pm
Anyway, in this case per capita statistics don't count for ****. China is a step away from declaring every day bring your gas mask everywhere you go so you don't asphyxiate day, but they get bumped down the list because there are more of them to poison with it.
What is it this something that you imply someone (who?) has said the per capita statistics "count for"?
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #13 on: September 15, 2009, 12:16:53 am
Quote from: tinfoil on September 14, 2009, 11:31:33 pm
Anyway, in this case per capita statistics don't count for ****. China is a step away from declaring every day bring your gas mask everywhere you go so you don't asphyxiate day, but they get bumped down the list because there are more of them to poison with it.

In a way you're correct about this, what matters for the entire world is the entire amount of pollution produced. However, if countries could be more efficient per capita, it would impact the entire amount. So yes, per capita does count for ****
 

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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #14 on: September 15, 2009, 12:20:05 am
Let's see, 21x10^06 vs. 350x10^06 vs 1,400x10^06.

1/70. Maybe that is a big number, maybe it isn't. But now, apparently, we are the fattest and dirtiest country on this planet... :eek:
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Re: Australia now the number one polluter in the world
Reply #15 on: September 15, 2009, 12:21:48 am
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