Talk:Carbon intensity

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You put this on my page:

You wrote: "The U.S. Clear Skies Act, plans to cut carbon intensity by 18% by 2012. This has been criticised by enviromentalists as it can be achieved by increasing the GDP as well as by reducing Carbon output." Can you please clarify what that means and provide citation for the criticism? --Treekids (talk) 06:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

This sentance is the left overs from a pruning session I did on the article. It referes to carbon intensity as the ratio of Carbon to GDP. As this is a single number this means that it can reduced by reducing the denominator (1/3 is less than 2/3) or increasing the numerator (2/4 is less than 2/3). I think it makes sense within the context of the rest of the article (sepecially the sentance afterwards. Feel free to correct it if you find it confusing. Mike Young (talk) 15:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I take issue with the world map on this page. It shows carbon intensity as a function of GDP. I think a more sensible measure would be carbon intensity per capita. As it is, it is essentially just a map that highlights the poorest countries in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.114.141.83 (talk) 00:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)