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Yes and: IIRC 1 ppm of CO2 is ~1 gigaton of carbon. Roughly the weight of Mt Everest. We're adding ~26 Everests annually.
by specialist 5y ago
Yes and:
IIRC 1 ppm of CO2 is ~1 gigaton of carbon. Roughly the weight of Mt Everest. We're adding ~26 Everests annually.
- pfdietz 5y agoMt. Everest has a mass of about 6 trillion tonnes.
- specialist 5y agoUgh. Stupid brain. Trying to get sense of the challenge, I worked some numbers to try visualizing how much carbon we're talking about. I'll refind my notes or recreate. Thanks.
- soperj 5y ago1 ppm of C02 ~ 2.13 gigatons of carbon, which is ~ 7.8 gigatons of CO2. (1) We add about 43 gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere per year 55% of which is absorbed by natural sinks. We're definitely not adding 26 ppm of C02 to the atmosphere each year. 1.https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=45 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=45