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Sunday, April 17, 2011

trillionthtonne.org

trillionthtonne.org  Please click on this link to see the astonishing numbers fly past -- you should have seen the expression on my face, and I'd love to see yours!

Explaining the need to limit cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide.
Estimated cumulative emissions from fossil fuel use, cement production and land-use change since industrialization began are
546,679,332,919
tonnes of carbon.
To keep the most likely global warming caused by these sources of carbon dioxide to about 2°C, we need to keep the total emissions over time below about1,000,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon.
Based on the emission trends over the past 20 years, we predict the trillionth tonne will be emitted on
Mon, 09 May 2044 16:54:04 GMT
We would not release the trillionth tonne if emissions were to start falling now at
2.3159127852
% per year.

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