Co2 Emissions Set To Reach New 40 Billion Ton Record High In 2014

[ScienceRocks]

CO2 emissions set to reach new 40 billion ton record high in 2014
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Carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, are set to rise again in 2014 - reaching a record high of 40 billion tonnes.

The 2.5 per cent projected rise in burning fossil fuels is revealed by the Global Carbon Project, which is co-led in the UK by researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia and the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter.

It comes ahead of the New York Climate Summit, where world leaders will seek to catalyse action on climate change.

This latest annual update of the Global Carbon Budget shows that total future CO2 emissions cannot exceed 1,200 billion tonnes – for a likely 66 per cent chance of keeping average global warming under 2°C (since pre-industrial times).

At the current rate of CO2 emissions, this 1,200 billion tonne CO2 'quota' would be used up in around 30 years. This means that there is just one generation before the safeguards to a 2oC limit may be breached.

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[ScienceRocks]

Key facts and figures:

• CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuel are projected to rise by 2.5 per cent in 2014 - 65 per cent above 1990 levels, the reference year for the Kyoto Protocol
• China, the USA, the EU and India are the largest emitters – together accounting for 58 per cent of emissions.
• China's CO2 emissions grew by 4.2 per cent in 2013, the USA's grew by 2.9 per cent, and India's emissions grew by 5.1 per cent.
• The EU has decreased its emissions by 1.8 per cent, though it continues to export a third of its emissions to China and other producers through imported goods and services.
• China's CO2 emissions per person overtook emissions in the EU for the first time in 2013. China's emissions are now larger than the US and EU combined. 16 per cent of China's emissions are for goods and services which are exported elsewhere.
• Emissions in the UK decreased by 2.6 per cent in 2013 caused by a decline in the use of coal and gas. However the UK exports a third of its emissions by consuming goods and services which are produced elsewhere.
• CO2 emissions are caused primarily by burning fossil fuels, as well as by cement production and deforestation. Deforestation accounts for 8 per cent of CO2 emissions.
• Historical and future CO2 emissions must remain below a total 3,200 billion tonnes to be in with a 66 per cent chance of keeping climate change below 2°C. But two thirds (2,000 billion tonnes) of this quota have already been used.
• If global emissions continue at their current rate, the remaining 1,200 billion tonnes will be used up in around 30 years – one generation.
• Global emissions must reduce by more than 5 per cent each year over several decades to keep climate change below 2°C.
• This emission quota implies that over half of proven fossil reserves might have to remain unused in the ground, unless new technologies to store carbon in the ground are developed and deployed in large quantities.

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[ScienceRocks]

Still going up with little to no warming.

 

[Billy_Bob]

lets ignore that the earth makes 226 gigatons dwarfing mans contribution by a factor of 20. Then that same earth consuming all but 1/20th of mans contribution...

Until the science is truly done to determine the cause/effect this is just cool information.. Cool as in, as CO2 increases LWIR escapes from the earth faster.

 

[Old Rocks]

lets ignore that the earth makes 226 gigatons dwarfing mans contribution by a factor of 20. Then that same earth consuming all but 1/20th of mans contribution...

Until the science is truly done to determine the cause/effect this is just cool information.. Cool as in, as CO2 increases LWIR escapes from the earth faster.

And you are full of shit. Before we started burning fossil fuels, the CO2 level stayed at a level of about 280 ppm, CH4 at about 700-800 ppb. Now those levels are at 400 ppm of CO2 and 1800+ ppb of CH4.

What CO2 was emitted by the oceans and land in one place was absorbed by the oceans and land in another. But you do a form of lying by only presenting the emission side.