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This is one of the most useless comparisons I have ever seen: "That’s an increase of the equivalent of roughly 36,000 Olympic sized swimming pools of carbon di
by cbsks 7y ago
This is one of the most useless comparisons I have ever seen:
"That’s an increase of the equivalent of roughly 36,000 Olympic sized swimming pools of carbon dioxide more per year."
Why are we measuring gas inside of a pool? Is that a lot? or a little? I don't think I've ever even seen an Olympic sized swimming pool in person!
- lifeformed 7y agoAnd how does one visualize 36,000 of them??
- cbsks 7y agoThat part is easy. It's a cube with 33 pools on each side. Duh.
- cheese4242 7y agoAt least they didn't measure it in football fields or distance to the moon.
- jml7c5 7y agoIt's also incorrect: 36000 * 2500 m^3 * 2 kg/m^3 is only 180 Gg. I think they used the density of dry ice (1500kg/m^3) by mistake. Measuring in teragrams is also not very useful, as virtually all climate-related stats are reported in in tonnes of CO2 equivalent ("tCO2e", which ain't exactly proper SI unit formatting but is still widely used). 140 Tg of CO2e = 140 MtCO2e. World CO2e emissions are ~40 Gt/year, for reference.