Sentences with phrase «billion tons»

So 500 billion tons would be enough to raise from 280ppm to nearly 500 ppm which looks more like 1 ppm equates to 2.5 billion tons.

There are 337 million hectares of peatlands within the circumpolar boreal region alone, containing 397 to 455 billion tons of carbon.

Chris Mooney has filed a nice Washington Post piece on ice sheet dynamics and several ways to visualize the most common unit of what's moving to the sea — gigatons (each a billion tons): Read more...

It was clear by 2006 that seven «wedges» of avoided emissions (each reaching 3.66 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2050) were merely step one in what would unavoidably be a century - long process and little was being done to chart a path toward step two and beyond.

There are enormous assumptions in most calculations, including the assumption that «carbon negative» technologies, like capturing CO2 from power plants burning biomass, can be done at a scale remotely relevant to the climate problem (to be relevant one needs to be talking in gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions per year — each a billion tons).

Chris Mooney has filed a nice Washington Post piece on ice sheet dynamics and several ways to visualize the most common unit of what's moving to the sea — gigatons (each a billion tons):

We'll reduce our dependence on oil by 1.8 billion barrels and cut nearly a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

As a layman, what I see is a constant emission of 35 billion tons of CO2 each year, and a 43 % increase of ppm in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution.

500 billion tons CO2 = 5 × 10 ^ 14 kg ~ 1.5 × 10 ^ 15 kg CO2, so by mass that much CO2 increases the atmos by a / b, ie 3 × 10 ^ -4, which is about right.

«U.S. utilities released 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2007, Department of Energy data show.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

Like Tommy Lee Jones drills around Texas, human being are drilling around world and want to use up last drop of fossil fuel, emit dazens billion tons of greenhouse gas, pollute all the rivers of world, raise over several degree temperature, melt away all of Arctic ice.

A sobering new analysis of HFC emission trends, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forecasts that by midcentury, emissions of these chemicals could be heating the atmosphere with the same punch as 7 or 8 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide.

Of the 186 billion tons of carbon from CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity.

Tens of billions of tons of concrete are part of that signature, along with vast amounts of smelted aluminum and more exotic alloys, distinctive spherical particles of fly ash from power plants, bomb radioisotopes, 6 billion tons (and counting) of plastic, and so much more.

The OP, in its line ``... found that tropical forests lost about 2.5 billion tons of carbon (GtC) in 2015 - 16.

Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.

The 100 - year forecast was based on current consumption rates, about 1.1 billion tons a year.

That'd be 132 billion tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year, if everyone on Earth had an equal carbon footing.

The science so far suggests enormous challenges: the remaining net amount of CO2 that can still be released to the atmosphere in order to keep temperature rise below 1.5 °C is at best 200 gigatons of CO2 [200 billion tons].

Since 1800, humans have released over 270 BILLION TONS of CO2 into the atmosphere.

We make nearly a billion tons of plastic every three years.

However it was in the 1950's that Dupont really pushed the plastic boat out... In roughly 60 years ago, over, one billion tons of plastic have been created from oil, used and discarded, a small insignificant proportion gets recycled... but -LSB-...]

The flare leads to what is called a Coronal Mass Ejection or CME of up to ten billion tons of plasma and these CME's move at speeds of up to a million miles an hour and reach the -LSB-...]

Between the 80's and the 90's, man - made emissions of carbon from fosil fuels increased from about 5 billion tons per year to about 6.5 billion tons per year, which means a 30 % increase in how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere yearly.

A two in three probability of holding warming to 2 °C or less will require a budget that limits future carbon dioxide emissions to about 900 billion tons, roughly 20 times annual emissions in 2014.

Right now, the sum of global emissions of carbon dioxide by 6.6 billion very - unequal humans is about 29 billion tons a year.

In roughly 60 years ago, over, one billion tons of plastic have been created from oil, used and discarded, a small insignificant proportion gets recycled... but most ending up in landfill or in the oceans

There's bus and rail transportation, of course, but there's also the Indianapolis International Airport, serving over seven million passengers and nearly a billion tons of cargo every year.

I was astonished to learn that the United States burns more than a billion tons of coal a year, mostly to generate electricity.

According to the Department's draft report, Beyond Traffic, approximately 10 million trucks moved more than 13 billion tons of freight across America's highways in 2012.

It is estimated that by 2040, freight volume will grow to 29 billion tons — an increase of 45 %.

Nearly 18.1 billion tons of goods worth about $ 19.2 trillion moved on our nation's transportation network in 2015, based on the current Freight Analysis Framework 4 (FAF4) estimates.

Second report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation — nonprofit organization that studies and encourages the adoption of circular economy — 65 billion tons of raw materials were inserted in the productive system worldwide in 2010.

Up to a third of food grown never makes it to our mouths, and an estimated 1.4 billion tons of food are wasted each year.

In the future, losing a mere 0.2 % per year of the tundra (in the form of CO2) would add two billion tons a year to our carbon emissions, yet that rate would still leave us with over 80 % of the tundra by 2100, so it is not an especially fast loss rate compared to what we may see at 550 ppm or higher.

It will also include complicated models of interconnected ecosystem feedbacks.The panel's last report noted that preliminary knowledge of such feedbacks suggested that an additional 100 billion to 500 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions would have to be prevented in the next century to avoid dangerous global warming.

We need to average 5 billion tons of carbon this century to avoid catastrophic warming.

For the first time, the plan includes quantified guidance on energy consumption control, stating that China should limit its energy use to 5 billion tons of standard coal equivalent.

Thus, according to US News & World Report, the EPA is currently «weighing whether to classify the gypsum stacks as hazardous waste under federal statutes, which would force the industry to provide strict safeguards» (to nearly 1 billion tons of waste).

It's worth repeating: 15 to 26 billion tons of carbon by 2028 — from the Amazon alone.

«It's going to take a miracle if we don't pass 10 billion tons of emissions in 2007,» Field said.

We need to peak around 2015 to 2020 at the latest, then drop at least 60 % by 2050 to 15 billion tons (4 billion tons of carbon), and then go to near zero net carbon emissions by 2100.

That's actually a small number compared with Antarctica's total annual ice flow — about 2,000 billion tons a year — most of which is replenished by precipitation.

The outpouring of money will be an attempt for India to achieve its goal of 33 % tree cover, which would represent a carbon sink of 2.5 billion tons.

The study found that in 2013, 3 percent less water was recycled by the region — an amount adding up to 14 billion tons.

In a single year, microorganisms, including many living in the ocean and decaying swamps, form and consume at least a billion tons of methane.

From 2008 to 2015, continent - wide rates of ice discharge increased by about 36 billion tons per year.

Since 1998, the company has provided its utility customers with more than 1750 reactor years of fuel — equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

The dataset revealed that Antarctica gained 272 billion tons more ice per year in the first decade of the 21st century compared with the first decade of the 19th.