Which country has contributed the most to global warming?
Global warming is the consequence not just of recent emission but of many centuries of activity by humans, other living things and even natural decay. It is stupid and uneducated to point he finger at any culprit by just look at a snap-shot of emitters, such as a league table. Apart from the fact that these league tables are frequently massaged by the compliers motivated by geo-politics, they do not show the TOTAL or cumulative amount of greenhouse gases that have been emitted by the countries since the industrial revolution when such gases began to become a problem. If we take the cumulative emission into account as we should, then the USA is the largest contributor to global warming, without doubt. If we looked at a snap-shot on a per capita basis , the largest emitter is still the USA, followed by Canada. But the per capita figures do change from year to year and depending on the source of data (Berlize has been cited as the highest in one year according to one source, and so has Au
