Average Brit barely pollutes planet’s air at all, compared to rest of the world

Will Government’s new plans for ‘green levies’ result in carbon-taxing us to a standstill?

Brits aren’t the problem – we are only the world’s 65th CO₂ gas emitter, per capita

Brexit Facts4EU.Org and the British Public's right to know

Facts4EU.Org shines a (low wattage) light on some uncomfortable truths
for British climate activists

Part One in a new occasional Facts4EU.Org series on the climate change / carbon taxes debate

Yesterday in Parliament the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, revealed the Government’s plans for carbon-neutral transport in the post-Covid world. If you ever want to leave your home in the future - and are allowed to do so by the Government - this affects you.

Many readers have contacted us in the last couple of years, asking that we shine the same bright light on the whole climate change debate as we have done on Brexit, democracy, freedom, independence, and other topics such as educational standards and wokery. In this, our first report on climate change, we provide some basic but vital information in order to set the backdrop to this contentious issue. As always we will use official sources for all our facts, even if we doubt them, so that climate change extremists have nowhere to go.

We start by asking two basic questions

How much is the average British person responsible for, in terms of CO₂ gas emissions?
Given that there are 67 million of us, where does this put the UK in terms of total world output?

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

British people barely pollute the planet’s air at all, compared to the rest of the world

(All figures are the latest available, for 2019. See sources below.)

1. The UK’s average CO₂ gas emissions per person

The average British person is the 65th-ranked emitter in the World
Average CO₂ per capita in the UK : 5.5 tonnes
This compares with Australians and Americans on over 16 tonnes each
Even ‘green-obsessed’ Canadians are on 15.4 tonnes per person

2. The UK’s total CO₂ output compared to other countries

The UK’s total output is 369.9 million tonnes and is ranked 17th in the World
By comparison, China’s is 10,175 million tonnes (27 times higher)
The World’s top 10 emitters account for a full 2/3rds of the entire World’s emissions
The UK accounts for just 1% of World emissions, despite being the World's 5th largest economy

Sources: Oxford's Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2020) - "CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions" using OWID conversions from the Global Carbon Project (2020). Supplemental data of Global Carbon Budget 2020 (Version 1.0). https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2020. All data conforms to the standards of the IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Observations

During our research on climate change in recent months it has seemed to us that there is more data on this than tonnes of CO₂ in the atmosphere. A great deal of this information is highly technical and we consider a lot of the studies to be dubious, based on false premises, and funded by ‘interested parties’. This is why we have focused on the ‘official’ information, even if we have our doubts about some of this too.

Are you, dear reader, interested in us condensing some of the facts about climate change into easily-digestible reports such as the one above? Please let us know in the Comments section below or by writing to us here. At the same time we also have to continue our work on Brexit, Covid, and the re-establishment of a fully free, independent and sovereign country of the type that most people want to live in.

Governments are making plans for your lives right now

Yesterday the Transport Secretary started outlining some of the Government’s latest thinking on climate change measures in the United Kingdom. These will affect every man, woman and child in the country – financially and in terms of future lifestyle and freedoms. At the very least these deserve the most intense scrutiny.

In addition, yesterday in Brussels the EU outlined its own proposals for carbon taxing.

At this point we can be sure of two things

These ‘green policies’ are going to cost each of us a great deal of money, and
The UK Government’s and the EU’s directions of travel are..... well..... for us not to travel

The right to know

Whatever the rights and wrongs and necessities, we can also be sure of one more thing. The public should be fully informed about what is being proposed in their name - and the full nature, scope, and costs of the consequences – but they won’t be. We would like to do our bit in putting this right.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Thur 15 Jul 2021

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Reader Comments 7

1. William , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 07:14:

Yet, strangely, all these climate warriors only seem to be addressing/attacking nice western countries where they are happy to travel (oh my god, what about THEIR dirty carbon footprint?!). I'm not aware of many know-it-all climate missionaires lecturing countries like China, Russia, Quatar, Kuwait, Kazakhstan etc.
I'm sorry but let's just set this straight right now, who is more cynical here, the climate change worriers making a nice a comfy carrier out of the whole thing or the sceptics?

2. Keith A / Midlands , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 07:54:

Talking of air pollution I assume that none of the international jetset politicians, campaigners, lobbyists and hangers-on will be flying in to Boris's climate change summit in Glasgow later this year? Oh... wait....

3. Colin Cornish , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 08:53:

regulation nearly always results in taxation! Britain produces less than 2% of world pollution, yet we are already taxed as if we emit 20% of world pollution!

4. Gwilym Morgan-Jones , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 08:56:

Does Co2 cause global warming/climate change? There has been research published that the planet has been warming and cooling cyclically for millions and millions of years without any input from us.

5. ste , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 09:21:

After studying 'climate change' at length for a number of years i can see it is only political. the capitol cartels that run the banks that run the governments do not wish any other countries to create or compete so since the 1970's oil strikes ( OPEC ), the 'other' capitol cartels have been blowing the crap out of oil producing states who by rights would have been in a more powerful state, thus crippling the oil dependent countries/economies. carbon tax etc is just another way of keeping control by the big cartels who really run the governments, i.e the money lenders!
the climate is NOT driven by carbon dioxide, it is driven by water vapour. The whole paris climate agreement , and the koyoto on before that were based on wild guesswork and bad science with incorrect figures put into models= garbage out. if you look at reality the 'model' closest to that is a russian one, and we are already exceeding any requirements to prevent anything worse happening.

6. Martyn Owers, Co. Durham , Thursday, July 15, 2021, 17:58:

Yes, I would very much like the Facts4EU team to research and explain the green agenda/carbon debate in layman's terms. We need this information for 2 reasons. Firstly, a lot of the nitty-gritty of the CO2 emissions debate goes over our head. Most people are not experts on this fairly new topic. In addition, as green agenda policies were set by EU technocrats knocking out long, technical reports, I highly doubt our politicians are much wiser about this than us. Secondly, once these green taxes start kicking in and ordinary working men and women find out how much they are actually paying for policies that the majority neither wanted nor asked for, there will be an enormous backlash. We need, therefore, the basic information to oppose it. After all, how can a population judge an issue that is as complicated as carbon emissions and the wider green agenda without a clear understanding?
The EU is very much setting this green agenda. For example, they intend to forge ahead with the carbon borders tax, without US agreement. The implications are enormous and will undoubtedly send China into apoplectic rage, as they will feel specifically targeted.

7. James Dent , Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 15:00:

The statement doesn’t actually make sense.
“Pollutes the air” what does that actually mean?
Are you referring to Scope 1, 2 and 3 or just scope 1?
The U.K. is a service based economy so the GHG emissions are generally related to Scope 3, thus it appears the U.K. has an artificially low Scope 1.
But you probably don’t understand what that means from the “pollute the air” comment.

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