I need help with a calculation

[gldgti]

Ive been invited to a meeting with my federal member and Mr Swan, and have been told i can ask any question after his talk on government matters including the carbon tax and the mining tax.
This is the question i would like to ask but i don't want to get my calculations wrong, there must be a couple of people here with a good grasp of mathematicss.
If the worlds carbon dioxide is 100% and 97% is accruing naturally ,mans contributionon is 3% ,
Australia emissions amount to 1.3% of that 3% which is 0.39% i think , now if we are going to reduce our carbon output by 5% by the year 2020 , What will be our total amount we will be reducing our carbon dioxide i think its 0.0195%
Am i right or wrong
thanks for any help don't dont want to stuff it up .

ummmm.....

No offense to pretty much everyone who has posted, but regardless of whether the maths are right or wrong, its your starting figures that need scrutinisation.

Given that most people don't seek out the necessary information to understand how the weather and our climate works, but seem content to deliver and work with information that suits their particular political orientation (usually from some media outlet), AND that I've not witnessed a polly in either of Australia's major political parties demostrate their understanding of climate change..... you are probably better off asking a question about something else.

For anyone interested in beginning a long and interesting learning experience (it may take years and years)
http://globalchange.nasa.gov/Resourc...ers/meteo.html

Its disappointing when media and politicians trivialise complex problems.

[ian]

According to Tim Flannery Gosford will be under water by 3 meters in 100 years, this is the same person who claimed that Australia will never see flooding rain ever again 2007,There was a time when the whole earth was covered with water if you go 100 km inland in western Australia you will find the remains of sea life shells and the like.All of Australia is drought free, its the best year the farmers have had for over a decade.
Do you know where our climate expert lives Coba point in the Hawksburry river on the waters edge now ask your self why would he buy a house there knowing what he has said ?,

[gldgti]

its a conspiracy!!!

[PassatB6]

According to Tim Flannery Gosford will be under water by 3 meters in 100 years, this is the same person who claimed that Australia will never see flooding rain ever again 2007,There was a time when the whole earth was covered with water if you go 100 km inland in western Australia you will find the remains of sea life shells and the like.All of Australia is drought free, its the best year the farmers have had for over a decade.
Do you know where our climate expert lives Coba point in the Hawksburry river on the waters edge now ask your self why would he buy a house there knowing what he has said ?,

Absolute classic, tells us that rising sea levels are nigh and then buys a waterfront home on the proceeds of his climate change rhetoric.