Trump: 'Nobody Really Knows' If Climate Change Is Real

[Lawlight]

Teeqoz said:

Lawlight said:

Fertility might decrease in those developed countries but population growth doesn't. The US's population has increased by a factor of 10 in the past 150 years. China doubled in the past 50 years. UK doubled in the past 100 years. Even Japan with its low fertility has seen an increase of 150% in its population over the past 100 years.

You know it's only recently that Japan has had very low fertility rates? So quoting data from the last 100 years makes no sense. I honestly can't tell if you chose a misleading dataset on purpose, or maybe you actually aren't aware that Japan's population has been decreasing since 2009. China too. Again, silly to only use the past 50 years when they are currently at the lowest population growth they've had in modern times.

Effing hell, I typed a response and VGChartz was down and now I don't feel like typing. But the jist of it is that Im using 100 years to correlate it to approximately how long we've had climate change data. The point remains that population has exploded in developed countries which contributes to global warming.

 

China's growth might have slowed but we're still talking about 7M more people each year (7.3M last - highest increase in the past 10 years).