[dmritard96]

1) Don't agree. The obviously important metric is quite clear. Contribution to global warming over some time period. Just looking at CO2 and ignoring all the other factors is fine if the science justifies ignoring those other sources and the cost per unit of GHG reduction is lowest for CO2. This isn't jumping from one metric to another, its effectively common sense.

Not sure why if it wasn't meat or cars it would be guns. Certainly healthy public debate about guns is needed since the US has way too many per capita as I understand it, but this is totally irrelevant.

2 and 3 - do you have some math or citations? I think China will quickly begin gaining ground but pretty sure the US has likely outpaced Europe. Also worth noting that it should review both per country but also per country per capita.

[dmritard96]

Found some info on the 'fabricated metric'. Btw, worth pointing out that fabricating metrics is faking data, not coming up with a metric...all metrics by your definition are fabricated.

http://berc.berkeley.edu/ranking-global-warming-contribution...

Here is a link to the most relevant part: http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-590398-galleryV9-dikr.jp...