Australia is rated the worst for green house gases ?

Question

I think its more like China....and you ?

Answer 1

Neither Australia or China...

TOTAL EMISSIONS
Measured by total emissions: The US is the worlds largest producer of greenhouse gases producing some 5,844,042,000 tons per year (24.3% of the global total), second is China with 3,263,103,000 tons per year (14.5%). Australia is 14th producing 356,342,000 (1.5%) per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions

Total emissions isn't an indicator of how clean or efficient a country is - obviously the more populated countries come top of the list (US, China, Russia, India, Japan etc) and the less populated ones come at the bottom (Micronesia, Lesotho, Lichtenstein, Somalia and Tuvalu).

RELATIVE TO POPULATION
A more effective way is to look at how much greenhouse gases are produced per head of the population (per capita). In this respect the US Virgin Islands top the list producing 121.3 tons per person per year, the US is 11th producing 19.8 tons pppy, Australia is 12th with 18.0 tons pppy and China is 99th producing 3.2 tons pppy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

RELATIVE TO GDP
A good indicator of efficiency is to look at the GDP of each country in relation to greenhouse gas emissions. Switzerland does best with a GDP of $9415 per ton of CO2, the US is 39th with a GDP of $2118 per ton, Australia is 41st on $1943 and China is 90th with $525. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_GDP_to_carbon_dioxide_emissions

Further information is obtainable from the United Nations Statistics Division - http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mdg/default.aspx

Answer 2

Australia has the highest CO2 emissions PER PERSON, due to using coal a lot for power generation, but because of their small population they are not a large emitter as nations go. China has pretty low, but growing fast, PER PERSON emission, but because of their large population they are the #2 emitter in the world as a nation. The U.S. has both a high per person rate and a large population, so they (we) are the #1 emitter as a nation.

Answer 3

Is it rated as the highest for green emissions or atmospherically.

I know that it is rated the highest Atmospherically because the conglomeration of world greenhous gasses is almost directly over Austrailia.

Antartica has the Ozone hole starting on the northern portion of the continent and continuing well over Australia

Answer 4

Think Australia is going to be one of the continents that are most affected by Global Warming

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKSYD16384220070330

It would certainly seem to be in their interest to join most of the rest of the world in trying to find some answers

Answer 5

Australia is has the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita.

Answer 6

It does not matter. The green house gas CO2 is recycled by the green plants .
The methane is a very light gas that rises very high in our atmosphere and disappears . Oh !! yes methane is a very explosive gas and haven't heard any explosives that high up,have u.

Answer 7

Awesome question!
There are many cities in China that are flat-out unhealthy to breath in, yet Al Gore and other enviromental wackos want to attack democracies and capitalist societies as being evil for having strong economies.
Isn't ironic that a HUGE U.S. ally heads the list of countries that the leftists want to target.
China, Russia, and other countries want to use this global warming canard to attack us, because they can't beat us in productivity.
Awesome question.

Answer 8

i think it is australia, since it's abundant in animals. Remember, animal fart is a real strong green house gas. yikes.

Answer 9

i think its austaralia its hotter there