How much of our greenhouse gas emissions are from energy production such as coal?

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by admin

I’ve looked at a number of different sources, and they all give different answers ranging from 25% to 50%.

I just need to know, what percentage of the greenhouse gas emissions in the USA are due to energy production, such as coal plants? How about for the entire planet?

And could you please provide your source? I just want to go to the site and check out if it’s legit.

Hello Bruce,

The World Resources Institute has a number of graphs and charts showing breakdowns of greenhouse gas emissions and the like. There isn’t one that I could see that specifically shows proportions of GHG emissions due to energy production but by using data from both these charts you should be able to get a reasonably good idea…
http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=ntn/11-6
http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=/US-FlowChart

2 Responses

  1. Big Al Says:

    They don’t know. They can guess, but they don’t know where it all goes.
    References :

  2. Trevor Says:

    Hello Bruce,

    The World Resources Institute has a number of graphs and charts showing breakdowns of greenhouse gas emissions and the like. There isn’t one that I could see that specifically shows proportions of GHG emissions due to energy production but by using data from both these charts you should be able to get a reasonably good idea…
    http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=ntn/11-6
    http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=/US-FlowChart
    References :

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