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[–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Your image shows US as 434 billion and china as 285, which is a smaller gap than my source, but not completely different. It’s weird it’s not listed in order.

My source is:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change/

As far as I know carbon brief are well respected and not a Chinese puppet, but I admit I that doesn’t mean they’re completely correct.

Edit: I see now that’s a little out of date. 2021.

They have an updated one from 2024, https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-have-now-caused-more-global-warming-than-eu/

Which doesn’t change my original assertion about the US having higher cumulative emissions, but does change the scale of the difference a bit, and discusses whether China will ever overtake the US (looks like it might be a toss up)

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