An Excel graph showing Carbon Dioxide Concentration
a. The CO2 emissions in this country consists of solids, gases, fluids, flaring, and cement. Though many of the contributions to the CO2 levels are very low, to what seems to be under 350 thousand metric tons. However, the amount of CO2 emissions that come from liquid is very high, reaching "at 2,581 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, liquid fuels contribute the largest share of the total emissions in the US among the five sources. Transportation represents the largest end-use CO2 emission for liquid fuels, at 1,952 million tonnes per year" as of June 2008 data. With the amount
b. It seems like from 1990, to 2000, the CO2 emissions from cement climbed gradually every year until it hit its peak in 2000 at about 250 thousand metric tons. This could be from the new increase of money to construct more roads and buildings, the amount of cement used increase as the community started to come together and grow. Then, But, the amounts of CO2 emissions released from liquids has gradually increased more and more every year starting from 1950.
(http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html)
c. Ghana's per capita is .10 metric tons of carbon. With .10 divided by the US's per capita, 4.7, the total comes out to 0.021= a 2.1%.
Since the United States is 4.7 and Ghana is only 2.1, it's value is lower than the US value. Ghana is not a well developed country like the US is, therefore, we lack the ability to increase our CO2 levels. Ghana has many forests and plants, lots of agricultural lands which absorb plenty of CO2 and emit lots of Oxygen levels. In the US, we do more polluting than producing when it comes to our CO2 and Oxygen levels. Deforestation and personal contribution to emitting higher CO2 levels are reasons why we have a high per capital percentage.
d. Ghana's per capita CO2 emissions rank at 181, whereas the US is ranked at number 12. Ghana is 169 ranks below US.
c. I'm not surprised, Ghana is a small country and with most of its country used for farming and less polluting, the low amount of CO2 emissions released v.s the US is not perplexing.
Fossil Fuel Emissions
Graph from: CITE AS: Boden, T.A., G. Marland, and R.J. Andres. 2013. Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions.Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.DOI: 10.3334/CDIAC/00001_V2013
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