These 7 Nations Are Global Warming's Biggest Offenders
Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
When it comes to global warming, there are seven big contributors: China is obviously number one, but exempt from climate treaties, as is India and Brazil. Also leading are the United States, gradually weaning itself off of the coal increases when environmentalists drove nuclear power from the country, Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom. A new article in Environmental Research Letters blames these countries for more than 60 percent of pre-2005 global warming. Uniquely, it also assigns a temperature change value to each country that reflects its contribution to observed global warming. read more