U.S. tops in 2004 greenhouse gas emissions

Data shows the U.S. led carbon dioxide emissions in 2004 and highlights discrepancies in assigned targets.

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[gerhard_schroeder]

USA IS NUMBER ONE IN CREATING PLANT FOOD!!

We are the nation committed to supplying the basic care and nutrients for all the plants of the world!

We make the CO2 that they breath! The baby plants breath our CO2 at night and sleep safely...

We are proud to carry out this important mission. USA! We are the best...!

[Blito]

We have made massive strides in last two years though

We have been making massive strides in Solar, Ethonol, and fuel cell tech in only the last 2 years though, so I would like to see data for this year soon. Also we didn't impliment some other standards as well I think we have done. All of this is new to Kyoto as well.

rmember Europe has complied with Kyoto standards so far they they are under the limit and we need more rearch in global warnming and biosystem.
SAVE the Mississippi River!
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.msaudubon.org/" target="_newWindow">http://www.msaudubon.org/</a>

I wish we were under Kyoto or some other non-profit standard. I'm not sure what that other restriction summit was about with Bush 6 months ago.

[HK_Steve]

A Question...

Considering just about everything in the USA is made in China, I
don't see how it is that the USA is the biggest polluter.

Living in China for the past few years, I can say that every city
I've been in is covered in a perpetual blanket of smog,
something I've never seen in America (except for photos of LA).

When they calculate this figure, are they counting the pollution
created from the manufacture of all goods, regardless of WHERE
they were created? If so, I understand the number. If not, I
disagree with the number and say that there is no-doubt some
sort of agenda behind it.

[lingsun]

We're putting CO2 back where it came from

CO2 in the atmosphere is a fraction of what it was millions of years ago. Millions of tons of carbon are still underground in the form of coal and oil. If we are to return the globe to it's pristine state of 1 billion years ago, we need to put most of that carbon back into the air. The US leads the world in this, as it should.

[Andrew J Glina]

Hear Hear!

Then we can all die and the dinosaurs can rule the world once more! Hurrah!