india: 6% of the emissions, with 17% of the population.
china: 30% of emissions, with 19% of the population.
canada: 1.5% of the emissions with .5% of the population.
usa: 15% of the emissions, with 4% of the population.

i guess barack has decided to share the blame a little. "blame canada" was maybe getting a little old.

reality?

the democrats have a decent blame-shifting marketing campaign going on, but they've done absolutely nothing substantive.

blame america.

together, china & america make nearly half of the emissions. india is fourth, after the eu, but there's a huge drop from 2nd to 4th.

and, yes, china *must* get their emissions down. but, they also have a fifth of the population, and one would expect they'd produce a fifth of the emissions. somewhere around 20% is a reasonable target.

it's the united states that remains the most egregious polluter and has to take the biggest steps. any suggestions otherwise are just a pr strategy to shift the blame.

one would expect china and india to be the world's biggest polluters, because they have nearly 40% of the world's population. a real solution to this will necessitate that india become the world's second largest polluter due to reductions elsewhere.

it is the day that this becomes true that we will know we've made some progress in reducing emissions in the developed world.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/paris-climate-change-conference-1.3343125

you know what?

screw obama.

let's push for legally binding targets, and make him make the choice to sign it or not. letting him squirm out of this is too easy. you're letting him blame it on the republicans. and, it's a lot of bs.

make it tough. make him sign it. and, make him take the heat when he doesn't.