Your Piece of the Keeling Curve - NYTimes.com
Rich countries like the United States, which have been burning fossil fuels for two centuries, are primarily responsible for the bad place in which we find ourselves now, with carbon dioxide at a perilously high level and rising fast.Correct Timing is Everything - Also for CO2 in the Air
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Susan Solomon, a famed government climate scientist in Boulder, Colo., wrote in a paper last year that climate damage would be largely irreversible for 1,000 years after carbon dioxide emissions stop.
“To me, it is kind of sobering to think that every pound of carbon that is emitted because I do something — drive a car or take an airplane or turn on a light — is going to influence the climate for a thousand years,” Dr. Solomon told me. “I actually take the bus more often now. That’s a personal choice.”
Sundquist (1985) compiled a large number of measured [residence times] of CO2 found by different methods. The list, containing RTs for both 12CO2 and 14CO2, was expanded by Segalstad (1998), showing a total range for all reported RTs from 1 to 15 years, with most RT values ranging from 5 to 15 years.
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