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Not even close. You need to look at the data.They are developing countries where they are still working on providing utilities to all their citizens. Even with efforts being made to use less emitting generation could increase their overall emissions because of expansion.Yet why is it the worst polluters get a pass?By that logic it started 22,000 years ago.Ten thousand years ago was much warmer than it is now. If you go further, Antarctica was ice free during the Cretaceous Period, for millions of years. Don't tell me, dinosaurs industrial revolution cause temperature to rise and run them into extinction, and we don't want to make the same mistake.The Cretaceous Period occurred 66 million to 145 million years ago while anatomically modern humans rose in Africa about 300,000 years ago and reached behavioral modernity about 50,000 years ago. If you're a human being under 30 years old today, you have never experienced a year in which the average surface temperature of the earth was below average.Ten thousand years ago was much warmer than it is now. If you go further, Antarctica was ice free during the Cretaceous Period, for millions of years. Don't tell me, dinosaurs industrial revolution cause temperature to rise and run them into extinction, and we don't want to make the same mistake
History of the world - Wikipedia
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"Each month, the US National Climatic Data Center calculates Earth’s average surface temperature using temperature measurements that cover the Earth’s surface.
"Then, another average is calculated for each month of the year for the twentieth century, 1901-2000.
"For each month, this gives one number representative of the entire century.
"Subtract this overall 1900s monthly average – which for February is 53.9F (12.1C) – from each individual month’s temperature and you’ve got the anomaly: that is, the difference from the average.
"The last month that was at or below that 1900s average was February 1985.
"Ronald Reagan had just started his second presidential term and Foreigner had the number one single with 'I want to know what love is.'"
Let’s Call It: 30 Years Of Above Average Temperatures Means The Climate Has ChangedChanges since the Industrial Revolution - American Chemical SocietyBy that logic it started 22,000 years ago.
"Data for the past 2000 years show that the atmospheric concentrations of CO2, CH4, and N2O – three important long-lived greenhouse gases – have increased substantially since about 1750.
"Rates of increase in levels of these gases are dramatic.
"CO2, for instance, never increased more than 30 ppm during any previous 1,000-year period in this record but has already risen by 30 ppm in the past two decades.
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"These increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and their marked rate of change are largely attributable to human activities since the Industrial Revolution (1800)."
China and India.
Look at the per capita greenhouse gas emissions sometimes & maybe you won't be such an ass. We are we are with CO2 because of the US & Europe.
The US and Europe combined account for about 10 billion tons of carbon emissions of the 40 billion tons of world wide carbon emissions.
Not to mention Europe and US carbon emissions have been declining whereas the rest of the world’s carbon emissions have been increasing by 1 billion tons per year