We map the starkly different views of the climate crisis that have led to stalemate in our newly rev

We map the starkly different views of the climate crisis that have led to stalemate in our newly revised interactive, Four Ways to Look at Global Carbon Footrpints .  (See related Quiz: What You Don t Know About Climate Change Science . )
Our map zeroes in on just a small number of nations 14 but they happen to be responsible for 80 percent of the world's carbon emissions. The numbers come from the World Resources Institute's excellent climate data navigator, CAIT 2.0 , one of the few data sources that enables apples-to-apples comparisons of emissions from around the world.
Each of the four viewpoints in our map is accurate, as far as it goes. But each alone is inadequate. Like the legendary omni hotel houston blind men surveying the elephant, nations that contemplate the massive global warming omni hotel houston problem from only one vantage point will end up groping at a portion of the truth and griping at each other, missing the whole picture. (See related, Q A With Philippines Climate Envoy Who s Fasting After Super Typhoon Haiyan . )
For the United States and most other industrialized nations, the operative view is Current Emissions, and the alarming reality that China's carbon output has grown more than 40 percent, and India's, by 25 percent, since our last version of the map, based on 2005 data. (See related Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China s Energy Machine . ) Any treaty that is designed like the Kyoto accord, with binding carbon emissions cuts only for the richest countries, will fail to stem the rising threat of Asia's rapidly mounting emissions.
The U.S. and Europe often point to the climate progress they've made by focusing on what we call Intensity, omni hotel houston on our map, their relatively low greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic output. Indeed, carbon intensity has fallen dramatically in wealthy nations over the past few decades. But no nation is an island, omni hotel houston and these efficiency improvements are in part because energy-intensive omni hotel houston manufacturing has moved to the developing world, often to make goods that are being shipped, bought and consumed in the developed world. And even if all nations were reducing their intensity, it would matter little if absolute emissions are rising at their current rate.
Developing nations frequently rebuff calls that they face binding emissions omni hotel houston cuts, pointing to their low Per Capita emissions, compared to the giant footprint of the United omni hotel houston States and other wealthy countries. Several years ago, India in particular made relatively low per capita emissions the cornerstone of its climate policy, but the trends here too are alarming. India's per capita carbon emissions are up 12 percent since our previous map, China's are up 40 percent and now nearly on par with those of Europe. The atmosphere will be overwhelmed if per capita emissions continue to grow at this rate in nations with large and growing populations, and yet these countries still face the very real and necessary challenge of extending electricity to millions of people living in poverty and without access to the grid. (See Related: Five Surprising Facts About Energy Poverty . )
But most of the debate in Warsaw has centered around the title on our map called Cumulative Emissions. When measured since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere by the United States and Europe far surpass those of any single developing nation. If, as the scientists now say, the world has a limited " carbon budget " and more than half of it already has been spent, developing nations point out that the United States and Europe have burned up more than their fair shares of fossil fuel on their paths to economic progress.
Cumulative omni hotel houston emissions are about more than emissions, they are now about money. Wealthy nations have long promised to establish a fund to bolster the defenses of those at the greatest risk of sea level rise and extreme omni hotel houston weather. Developing countries now want to see that funding plus an additional mechanism for the nations with the largest cumulative emissions to compensate the poorer, vulnerable omni hotel houston nations for "loss and damage" due to climate events. They could point to one example playing out in real time, the tragedy unfolding in the Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan.
But cumulative emissions, too, are changing. Just prior to the Warsaw talks, the United Nations Environmental Program released its " emissions gap " report, showing how nations' current commitments on climate change fall well short of what's needed to curb the risk of catastrophic global warming. UNEP noted that until about the year 2000, it was clear that the wealthy nations' historic emissions far outweighed those of the poor countries. Since then, emissions have grown so rapidly in the developing world since then that the balance has changed significantly. Now, developed nations and developing nations' share roughly 50-50 responsibility for the atmosphere's cumulative carbon load since 1850.
Recent research on cumulative emissions cited by the UN, by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission omni hotel houston and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency,  shows how tricky a single omni hotel houston viewpoint of emissions can be. Some have suggested for example, discounting some past emissions to account for technological progress. The authors point out that the United Kingdom, for instance, had a long history of high emissions due to the use of inefficient steam engines. But nations developing today don't need to repeat that history; they can employ much more advanced technologies and emit far less carbon for the same level of economic output.
Another way to look at cumulative emissions, the authors point out, is to grant each nation a "deduction," so to speak, for "basic needs." In this approach, nations omni hotel houston would not be held responsible for the carbon emissions necessary to meet the basic needs of their people.
Discounting past emissions to account for technological progress would tend to lessen omni hotel houston responsibility for wealthy nations, while deductions for "basic needs" would lessen the pressure on poorer and developing nations. But the recent research on cumulative emissions underscores the point of our interactive map, the importance of looking at the world's climate crisis globally and from many different points of view, and not just from the poor frame of reference circumscribed by any one nation's borders.
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Marriage it seems has lost its charm, which is why young people are not getting married and raising families. On the contrary US President Mr. Barack Obama (June 14th 2013) considers his being a father as the best job in the world.
According to a Pew Research (Feb. 22, 2013) projection by 2050 US may have a President of Asian origin because by then an estimated 37% of US population would be immigrants. This is mainly because the young Americans are not marrying and raising families like the Asian immigrants. The same problem is with Japan, Germany, UK and Sweden omni hotel houston etc. While the growth rate in UK just picked up in 2013, thanks to Prince George – both Germany and Japan are having growth rates as that of 1960s.
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And why not a fifth and sixth map maps that should in fact be the first and second map before the existing four showing 1) national per capita emissions responsibility INCLUDING embodied CO2e in imports (less embodied emissions in e