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Worldwide Energy Use
All nations have contributed to the growth in use of energy, as is shown in
Figure
4. The
centrally planned economies include China, Russia, and other communist
countries, and the nations making up the Organization for Economic Development
and Cooperation are listed in Figure
4. The Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center provides global and regional
contributions to fossil fuel CO 2 emissions.
The Energy Information Administration provides a wide variety of energy-related statistics from the US Government. Figure 5 converts the national carbon emissions into the fractional contribution of each nation to greenhouse warming. This pie chart shows that the US is the major single contributor, accounting for 21% of the total. The former USSR and the European Economic Community are approximately the same at 14% and China is fourth at 7%. More recent figures likely will show China to be a much larger contributor, however.
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