Nick, the credibility of your argument would hold more weight if you were not doing what you accuse me of doing - if this isn't blaming others for polluting more than the US then what is?
Quote' The indirect emissions are perhaps even more damning, because the release of CO2 from chopped down trees is almost as much a problem as are the direct emissions, and the loss of carbon fixing from those trees makes the "pollution" from rural, third world countries perhaps as bad as the big bad US. Furthermore, the release of methane from thawing tundra (a mode unrealized when the models were constructed) appears to be accelerating the problem.' Unquote...just how much of that timber is destined for the US market?
And your justification is, Quote' The US pollutes more in direct emissions because the US uses more energy to run its high lifestyle, the lifestyle that Asia and Africa are working hard to assume.' Unquote........so it's the other guys fault again for wanting to be like you.
Get your own house in order before you start preaching. You want to be world leaders then lead from the front.
Aviation does have more to fear from the anti CO2 lobby because alternative technology doesn't appear to exist, whereas the carmakers are pushing electric/hybrid/hydrogen powerplants strongly - a more efficient jet engine isn't going to sway the greenies.