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Good finds. Thanks! Yeah, it's the comparison between DRE and Gas ejecta that got me bogged down before. Having now given up, I asked ChatG4. It says "the m
by pmayrgundter 3y ago
Good finds. Thanks!
Yeah, it's the comparison between DRE and Gas ejecta that got me bogged down before.
Having now given up, I asked ChatG4. It says "the mass ratio between DRE and gaseous emissions might be on the order of 20:1 to 100:1", no citations ofc.
So, just as a strawman and using your 10-40%, on the low end .01.1 = 0.001, high end .05.4 = 0.02. So .1%-2% of ejecta by mass is CO2 emissions. Hah :)
Using my orig figure for Toba of a billion gigatons of ejecta, of which roughly a million gigatons would be CO2. Correct math?
Human GHG emissions are ~50 Gt/year.
- dredmorbius 3y agoDRE == dense rock equivalent: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense-rock_equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense-rock_equivalent>
- pmayrgundter 3y agoMath glitch. It was a million gigatons DRE, so 1000 Gt CO2