He's not arguing that fossil fuel consumption directly causes longer lives, but rather that something(s) else is causing both the increase. He doesn't say what, but I'd offer up prosperity and accumulated wealth as those causes.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
An Interesting Correlation...
One of my favorite AGW skeptics is Warren Meyer, proprietor of CoyoteBlog. He's put together a presentation on AGW skepticism that includes the chart below. It shows that life expectancy in any given country is quite closely correlated with that country's CO2 emissions (which are themselves a good proxy for fossil fuel consumption). The more fossil fuels a country uses, the longer its citizens can expect to live.
He's not arguing that fossil fuel consumption directly causes longer lives, but rather that something(s) else is causing both the increase. He doesn't say what, but I'd offer up prosperity and accumulated wealth as those causes.
He's not arguing that fossil fuel consumption directly causes longer lives, but rather that something(s) else is causing both the increase. He doesn't say what, but I'd offer up prosperity and accumulated wealth as those causes.
Relatively cheap energy in the form of fossil fuels helps drive that prosperity.
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