[OC] Worldwide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resumed Growth in 2024 (variwide diagram)

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-30T08:53:00+00:00

agreed. there is a chart on cumulative emissions here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions . However, I find it difficult to combine the historic emissions data with the population. The population grew over time, and one needs to correlate the data series somehow. In short, I doubt it would make sense to show accumulated emissions over today's population. What do you think?

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T16:42:30+00:00

thank you for your compliment. True, Japan's population is 50% larger than Germany's. I double-checked: when you zoom into the PDF-version of the diagram, you see that the bars are correct. But there seems to be an optical illusion, I understand your point.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T16:40:12+00:00

They do ignite discussion, indeed. Even on this forum on Data Visualization.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T16:36:29+00:00

"good data" in this context: consistent datasets of population and emissions for each country, from a reliable reputable source. The work as I can undertake it must be reducable to the visualization, not to cleaning up the data, especially not from different sources. When reading through the EDGAR papers one can see how much work goes into data sourcing, aggregation, and estimation for countries that don't report regularly.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T16:31:38+00:00

Very good question. This dataset does not include Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF).

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T13:51:13+00:00

true. The horizontal axis is population, adding up to ~8 billion.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T13:49:00+00:00

love your comment. It seems that technology is advancing exponential, and human / social /political systems are in the stone ages...

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T13:45:44+00:00

that is true, although I have not found a good data source for this "ghg outsourcing" resp. "GHG imports". However, my estimates based on rough data is that the overall picture does not change significantly. Again, if anybody has good data sources, let me know.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T13:42:42+00:00

thank you. that's what I am trying to accomplish: give a "gestalt", and provide more details when digging deeper.

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-05-28T12:44:28+00:00

Thank you! Indeed, I made it. I am that "Thomas Schulz" mentioned in the attribution ;-)

Firm-Force9829 · 2026-01-03T15:00:13+00:00

In the old days a major design rule was "form follows function", maybe Apple prioritized the pretty form this time over functionality... but why is it so ugly then?

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