The FINANCIAL - Deutsche Bank launches world's first real-time carbon counter
"The Carbon Counter is a bold new experiment in communicating climate science to the public," said Ronald Prinn, Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT. "With climate change in the news around the world, it is useful to have an up-to-date estimate of a single integrating number expressing the trends in the long-lived greenhouse gases contributing to that change. This number can help convey how fast these greenhouse gases are increasing, and the progress, or lack thereof, in slowing the rate of increase. The number on the Counter is based on global measurements. It shows the total estimated tonnage of these gases expressed as their equivalent amounts of carbon dioxide, with seasonal and other natural cyclical variations removed to more clearly reveal the underlying long term trends driven by human and other activity. It is indeed a number to watch."
The current quantity of long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as shown by the Carbon Counter is 3.64 trillion metric tons, increasing by approximately 2 billion metric tons per month.
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another question: how much of the gases aren't man made and were always there, and how much of the increase is man-made?
By using the global perspective, any ridiculous thing can be hyped to appear bigger than it is. The constant mention of "tons" and "pounds" of CO2 makes things appear drastic and damatic, but how little is that compared to the overall weight of the planet - a drop in the ocean.
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