3.25 Global climate change, continued. Exercise 3.3 described a 2015 report by the Pew Research Center relating a country’s per-capita CO2 emissions to its citizens’ level of concern over global climate change. The data from the report are displayed in Table 3.2.

TABLE 3.2 CO2 emissions (in ton per capita) and climate change concern i Country CO2 Concern Country CO2 Concern Country CO2 Argentina 4.67 10.70 Ghana 0.41 10.73 Mexico 3.91 Australia 16.52 8.75 India 1.70 10.77 Nigeria 0.54 Brazil 2.23 11.42 Indonesia 2.31 9.21 Pakistan 0.93 Burkina Faso 0.11 11.22 Israel 8.95 8.66 Palestine 0.57 Canada 14.14 9.45 Italy 6.70 10.12 Peru 1.79 Chile 4.59 10.86 Japan 9.29 10.11 Philippines 0.86 China 6.71 9.11 Jordan 3.60 9.26 Poland 8.34 Ethiopia 0.08 9.49 Kenya 0.32 10.41 Russia 12.65 France 5.19 9.94 Lebanon 4.67 9.92 Senegal 0.59 Germany 8.92 9.49 Malaysia 7.85 9.86 South Africa 9.26

a. Create a scatterplot of the data and describe the relationship. If your country was part of this survey, locate it on the scatterplot.

b. How strong is this relationship? Obtain the correlation.

c. Refer to your answer to Exercise 3.3, part

a. Would it be appropriate to conclude that citizens’ level of concern over global climate change is directly affected by their country’s CO2 emissions? Explain your reasoning.