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[Welcome to 2024 and the past 800,000 years of atmospheric CO2.]

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@petergleick hard to believe we have had that much of an impact in such a short geological time.

@allynkhine @petergleick
"Each part per million of CO2 in the atmosphere represents approximately 2.13 gigatonnes of carbon, or 7.82 gigatonnes of CO2"

"Around 2020 the emission rate was over 40 gigatons per year."

Referenced here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere

Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia