claim: when 3 per cent of total annual global emissions of carbon dioxide are from humans and Australia prod­uces 1.3 per cent of this 3 per cent, then no amount of emissions reductio­n here will have any effect on global climate.
evidence: Other countries with fast growing emissions are South Korea, Iran, and Australia ( which apart from the oil rich Persian Gulf states, now has the highest percapita emission rate in the world ).