* rate of World co2 emissions continue to rise.
* we don't just need rate to stop rising, we need rate to fall to pretty much zero.
* and if we could magically get rates to stop rising, and fall to zero, tomorrow, we'd still have about 2 degrees of warming from all the emissions already up there.
People have completely missed the point: the rate of growth of rate of emissions might have improved in some places. But the problem is total amount emitted.
Oh, and you don't avert climate change with per capita cuts if population keeps growing. Which it will, till about 2100.
