Two Very Useful Climate Change Visuals

 

I’m adding these two very useful visuals to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change:

Here’s an impressive animation:

Animation: The countries with the largest cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750

Ranking as of the start of 2019:

1) US – 397GtCO2
2) CN – 214Gt
3) fmr USSR – 180
4) DE – 90
5) UK – 77
6) JP – 58
7) IN – 51
8) FR – 37
9) CA – 32
10) PL – 27 pic.twitter.com/cKRNKO4O0b

— Carbon Brief (@CarbonBrief) April 23, 2019

You can read more about it at Vox’s article, Why the US bears the most responsibility for climate change, in one chart.

This next visual also comes from Vox:

Educating girls and family planning could together reduce 120 gigatons of CO2-equivalent by 2050. That's more than on-and offshore wind power combined. #EarthDay pic.twitter.com/U5VG4SQC5i

— Vox (@voxdotcom) April 22, 2019

You can read more about it at This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.