Whoever brings this map to a debate about climate change wins.
Created by a research team at Concordia University in Montreal, it was created to highlight the biggest global warming offenders in the world:
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Researchers at Concordia add that just a few nations are responsible for the bulk of the world's warming within the past decade:
The researchers' biggest claim is that a mere seven nations are behind 60 percent of the world's warming up to 2005. The United States tops their ranking in a big way, a finding that's sure to bring joy to the heart of Americans who insist on being first. The country is to blame for a global temperature uptick of about 0.15 Celsius – or to put it as a piece of the pie, a fifth of all warming since the mid-1700s.
It puts things in perspective for you—in an unsettling way.
[via The Atlantic Cities]
