Fast-growing economies may be increasing their fossil-fuel use but, since Western countries have emitted around 80 per cent of all manmade CO2 since the Industrial Revolution they've arguably got some catching up to do.
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Instead, you just assume how much you would have emitted and compare it to what you did emit.
The revelation – which may mean China has emitted close to a billion additional tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year – could complicate the fight against global warming ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, which begins on 30 November.
For example, if the words "purr" and "meow" are never used as labels for the same sound, the retrieval system cannot model the information that these sounds may have been emitted from the same physical source (a cat), even though they are widely separated in the acoustic feature space.
11.37am GMT Duncan Clark, whose work I highlighted earlier, has sent me his thoughts: It's true that the rich world has emitted the majority of the CO2 historically, though looking at current trends that may change surprisingly soon.
Meanwhile, it is a perverse side effect of global warming that we may have to emit large volumes of carbon dioxide to obtain the clean water that is becoming scarcer because of the carbon dioxide we've already put into the atmosphere.
And that consumer trust, he added, will have little to do with the fact that the cars may have been emitting nitrogen oxides at up to 40 times the legal limit.
This indicates that well-defended TPS10 plants may have benefited directly from emitting TPS10 volatiles, and may have additionally increased the mortality of non-emitting neighbors.
