What country is the largest contributor of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
Well, first of all, there are different scales used, such as per capital, land use, and absolute volume. Each scale has a different list of countries. First link below is carbon dioxide per capita emissions as of 2007. Second link below is greenhouse gasses as a hole as of 2000. The final link is probably the one used to determine “the worst” contributor; the list of countries by carbon dioxide emissions as an absolute values as of 2007. China (People’s Republic of China) is the worst, followed by the United States. The European Union is listed at third, but because of some unique situations, it doesn’t actually score, which makes Russia third. India is number four, and Japan comes in at the bottom of the top five. Now, there are some political and economic problems in this list. Problems that are preventing us from seriously pursuing green/sustainable/renewable energy, and any kind of cleaning of the atmosphere, were it possible. Read the fourth link. The problem lies with the Kyoto P
