Nation in top three for carbon emissions - 3 December 2012 (Aren't we sick and tired of Professors speaking half truths?)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/nation-in-top-three-for-carb... AUSTRALIA rates among the world's highest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in new figures released by British researchers. ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO TO WORK THIS OUT WAS GOOGLE "EMISSIONS BY COUNTRY" !! In 2011, Australia recorded 17.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per person, on par with the US, a team of specialist climate change researchers at the University of East Anglia has reported. The figure is up from 16.3 tonnes per person in 2010 and takes Australia's total output to 392 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, representing 1.2 per cent of the world's 2011 total. "The United States, Canada and Australia are really the three (countries) that have much bigger emissions per person than any other," director of the University's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Corinne Le Quere told AAP. "There are a range of oil-producing countries, like Qatar, which are much higher in terms of tonnes per person, but in terms of population size, they cannot be considered in the same category." WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA ALSO HAS ONE OF THE FASTEST RATES OF POPULATION GROWTH ON EARTH. WHY MENTION POPULATION SIZE BUT NOT THAT IT DOUBLES EVERY 40 YEARS ?? The research team forecasts a record high of 35.6 billion tonnes of global emissions in 2012, but Prof Le Quere said it was too early to determine Australia's contribution as a part of that projection. While Australia's overall and per capita carbon emissions were not at their highest in 2011 - greater amounts were recorded in 2008 (393 million tonnes) and 2009 (400 million tonnes) - Prof Le Quere called for very aggressive policy to combat future fossil fuel-related output. WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION GROWTH RATE FAR EXCEEDS CURRENT STRATEGIES TO REDUCE EMISSIONS. "Some countries - Belgium, Denmark, France, Sweden, and the UK - have succeeded to reduce their energy usage by up to five per cent and it's that sort of aggressive policy that's needed in other rich countries," Prof Le Quere said. WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA HAS ONE OF THE FASTEST RATES OF POPULATION GROWTH ON EARTH AND THE EU HAVE VERY LOW RATES OF POPULATION GROWTH. THIS IS A MISLEADING AND UNSCIENTIFIC COMMENT. "One of Australia's greatest contributions of course is its use of coal and that I think will continue." WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA ALSO HAS ONE OF THE FASTEST RATES OF POPULATION GROWTH ON EARTH COMBINED WITH DOUBLING TIME FOR COAL EXPORTS OF ROUGHLY 20 YEARS. THIS IS DRIVEN BY A GOVERNMENT DESPERATE TO COVER THE COSTS OF EXTREME POPULATION GROWTH UNDER THE DELUDED THINKING THAT POPULATION GROWTH IS IMPROVING THE ECONOMY !! The team's report, to be published on Monday in online journal Nature Climate Change, named China (28 per cent), the United States (16 per cent), the European Union (11 per cent), and India (seven per cent) as the biggest contributors to global carbon emissions. However, while emissions in China and India grew, the changes did not match booming population growth, while the US and EU posted a reduction on 2010 figures. WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA ALSO HAS ONE OF THE FASTEST RATES OF POPULATION GROWTH ON EARTH. The projected 2.6 per cent rise in global emissions for 2012 takes output from burning fossil fuels to 58 per cent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol. Last week, the Australian government announced it was ready to commit to limiting annual emissions to an average 99.5 per cent of 1990 levels (287 million tonnes) from 2013 to 2020 as part of its commitment to the second Kyoto period. WHAT THIS ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT AUSTRALIA HAS A PLAN TO USE PLANTATION FOREST GROWTH TO DISHONESTLY MISREPRESENT WHAT IT IS REALLY DOING ABOUT FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS. But Prof Le Quere warned such commitments may not be enough to hold the increase in global average temperature below two degrees celsius or 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. "I am worried that the risks of dangerous climate change are too high on our current emissions trajectory. We need a radical plan," she said. HOW CAN "A RADICAL PLAN" POSSIBLY WORK WITH A POLICY THAT IGNORES DOUBLING AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION WITHIN THE NEXT FORTY YEARS AND GLOBAL POPULATION WITHIN THE NEXT 60 YEARS? While Prof Le Quere said China is not expected to reach its peak carbon output until between 2020 and 2030, Australia should be nearing its peak and and further investment in alternative energy generation would aid the process. 2014-15: Migration program set at 190,000 places; humanitarian intake 13,750 places.