WaPo’s Chris Mooney: ‘The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will get its revenge’
'Looking back over time, the United States is far and away the number one emitter. This analysis from the World Resources Institute shows that from 1850 to the year 2011, the United States, a single country, produced 27 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions of the world. No other single country was close — indeed, the U.S. even outdistanced all the nations of the European Union combined.'