U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany & the UK have been responsible for 63% Of Emissions

[kpete]

EcoWatch: “A new study aims to offer unique insights into countries’ historical responsibility for global warming, by translating their carbon emissions into a proportion of observed temperature rise… Unsurprisingly the research showed how a small number of countries account for a large share of greenhouse gas emissions. Together, the U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the UK have been responsible for 63 percent of emissions.”

http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/17/research-maps-countries-contributions-global-warming/

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. Interesting, but so what?

What exactly is the point of this exercise? Obviously, these emissions are a byproduct of combustion. Combustion is integral to economic development, as all industrial processes are a process of gathering raw materials and applying heat - either directly to change the property of the material, as in the making of steel, or indirectly by shaping it in some way, as in cutting wood or sanding it. It's simply a physical fact - as in basic physics - that any process at all gives off heat and therefore needs an energy source.
Energy sources in the past were wood, then fossil fuels, overwhelmingly. In the future, we may be able to use non-biomass renewables predominantly, as Spain has already demonstrated. This may be a fun historical exercise, but it doesn't get us any closer to solving anything.