carbon emissions of N.Korea etc.

[Jan Hollan <jhollan@amper....muni.cz>]

Dear Dr. Marland,

I appreciate very much your continuing effort to maintain and improve the
time series of fossil carbon emissions of all countries, as available on
  http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp030/

I have employed your data for 1995 for a pair of graphs I use in a
programme on Global warming (written 1998) in our Planetarium.

I comment there ``live'' our obligation to lower the CO2 emissions, as per
capita emissions of Czechia are very high. Just a couple of similar-sized
countries rank even worse.

Today I found another overview of fossil carbon emissions (not considering
cement production) at http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/ , e.g.
   Linkname: World Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1999
        URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/tableh1.html

For two countries I usually speak about, the emissions given there are
about twice lower:
    for Northern Korea 
 (I mention it as a prime example of incredible wasting symptomatic for
``an advanced socialist'' country, even worse then in Russia or in our
country before 1990)
    and for Norway 
 (I mention it because of flaring gas at sea)
 (I have noticed the Norway data are temporarily missing in your recent
table).

On the other side, eia.doe.gov gives almost double emissions for
Netherlands. 

At first I thought either data are _equivalent_ carbon for all emitted
greenhouse gases, but it is not the case. 

Have your any idea what could be the reason for these large differences?

with best regards,
Jeník Hollan

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PS. the above mentioned graphs are available in Czech as
  http://amper.ped.muni.cz/gw/obrazky/black_background/cnt1_w.pdf
  http://amper.ped.muni.cz/gw/obrazky/black_background/cnt2_w.pdf
 and their raw English source (I modify then by LaTeX) in  
  http://amper.ped.muni.cz/gw/obrazky/raw/