Ghana's contribution to climate change




This is the Keeling curve that shows the Carbon Dioxide Concentration trends through the years for Mauna Loa, HI. This graph was created by using the date from:ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_mlo.txt




This is the total Fossil Fuel Emmision by country the data was pulled from the following: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_usa.html

The CO2 emmision of Ghana is lower compared to other countries emmisions of CO2. With it being lower it does not mean that they do not contribet to the emmisions of CO2. Since the recordings started in 1950 there is a continual growth of CO2 emmisions. The biggest part of this is the emmissions from liquid fluids the other factors have been pretty stable through out the years. The emmision from cement production has been slightly increasing since the 1990 to the present time. The more cement productions can be coming from the country trying to evolve and grow into a more substantal country.

The per capita CO2 emmisions has grown slightly  but through out the years has stayed in the range of .05 to .1. The per capita CO2 emmision in the United states is 4.9. Ghana's per capita CO2 emmisiions i 2% of that of the United States. The US is a more powerful and a more advanced country then Ghana, where Ghana is still starting and attempting to buil a country. The necessaity for the United States to sustain all of the techonological advances and the lifestyle of the country requires more then Ghana does. Ghana ranks 177 out of 215 countries where as the united states ranks as the 12th out of the 215 countries that are ranked. I think that this ranking is great when applying it to the effects of global warming. The per capita CO2 just cant stay this low as the more the country grows but if both growth and low CO2 emmiion were possible that would be the ideal situation.

The total fossil fuel emmision for the country of Ghana are pretty stable through out the years. Compared to the other countries on the graph above Ghana is not even close to other countries like the United States and China. The country closest to Ghana is Kenya. They have continually stayed at the same emmision level while the other countries countinue to grow. Out of the countries depicted on the above graph China had the most fossil fuels emmisions in 2008. While the country of China has emmited more then the United States, the country of China has a population of 1,338,000,000 and the United States has a population of 312,000,000 which is a lot less people. So with this information the United States citizens have more fault for emmiting CO2. The diference between China and the United States is not that big which mean the United States emmits more per capita. The following are cumulative totals of fossil fuel emmision per country so that we can see who has the biggest impact cummulitively; United States - 91,229,888, China - 31,793,558, India - 9,151,461, Ghana - 56,379, Italy - 5,364,817, Kenya - 80,124. So when looking at cumulative totals the loest country emmiting CO2 is still Ghana  while the country with the most CO2 emmisions is the United States eventhou China had more CO2 emmision then the United States in 2008. In total China emmits 34.85% of that of the US and India emmits 10% of the amount the US emmits. These are drastic differences when the the countries are compared to the US. The US emmits more CO2 than any other country compared on the above graph.

Carbon emmisions are different than carbon dioxide concentration. carbond emmisions are the fuels that are burnt and are trpped in the earths atmosphere and the carbon concentraions are absorbed by the plants. The following is the global emmsions of carbon.

 If the same years are compared to the first graph in this post than you can see that the same trend occurs and the more time that passes the amount of carbon increases.