Per capita measurements are worse than useless, but not as useless as the graph posted with this article.

\"Economic value of fossil-fuel consumption subsidies...\" Why?

The UN, The Int\'l Energy Agency and a handfull of other self-serving crooks have perpetrated one of the greatest hoaxes ever seen by the world, Global Warming..

Shame on Gizmag for publishing this kind of political/junk science. Stick to technology.

I have two words "Climate Gate" After conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more the scientists appointed by the United Nations at University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit could not prove any correlation between CO2 (green house gases) and climate change. These scientists manipulated evidence, had private doubts about whether the world really is heating up, suppressed evidence, fantasized about violence against prominent Climate Skeptic scientists, attempted to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), and plotted how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. After all of this the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could prove NO CONNECTION between CO2 and climate change.

From a technology standpoint, Gizmag authors should be smart enough to know that all humanity working together could not raise or lower global temperatures.
Archaelogists tell us that in the distant past, the entire earth was a tropical rain forest. If man did not cause that bout of \"global warming,\" why do today\'s \"experts\" think we caused this one (if indeed global temperatures are increasing)?
Proponents of global warming tout computer models based on data from worldwide temperature sensors. Really? How many centuries have those stations been in place? For that matter, how long have accurate thermometers been in existence?
Gizmag: Challenge us with technologically new and unique ideas. The proponents of global warming are already challenging the gullibility of people around the world. Don\'t sully your reputation by joining them.

Love how you are willing to sell your scientific soul for a political what? Climate change and global warming is impossible to be affected at present by MAN... a scientific place such as yours should not take a political stance - especially when fraud and other misrepresentations are tied in with the theory - shame on you

Folks, this is a science and technology blog where we stick to reality. Please save the Alex Jones/Tea Party conspiracy talk for somewhere else. Science has declared human-caused global warming to be reality, just like evolution and gravity. Please don\'t accost Gizmag for reporting on all three.

Whether we could heat up the climate or not, it doesn\'t really matter. What matters is the fact that our planet has limited resources but the growth of population, the extensive consuming of natural resources and the pollution is exponentially growing. Do your math.
It will definitely led to crisis. Depending on your age you could see it in your life, or you would die sooner. Maybe the latter is more lucky.

@ Jed: Get informed about \"climate gate\". http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
@ bgstrong: Don\'t be a hater
@ AllenH: No one is saying Earth was never hot like in the past, the problem is that it is getting hotter faster than it did before (over decades instead of thousands of years) and adaptation of species won\'t be able to keep up and there could be collapse of ecosystems. Sure life on earth will go on, but it\'ll be a rough ride. Obviously those sensors haven\'t been in place for a long time. Don\'t be obtuse. But they use many other techniques to determine history of climate (ice core samples among them). Lighten up a bit.

Wow! A lot of tin hat wearing individuals....you, because its far easier to believe that 10,000s of scientists are working to hod wink the entire planets population. Maybe should hang out on fringe conspiracy websites.