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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by specialist on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#28674169)
Yes and:

IIRC 1 ppm of CO2 is ~1 gigaton of carbon. Roughly the weight of Mt Everest. We're adding ~26 Everests annually.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by soperj on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:40PM (#28675722)
1 ppm of C02 ~ 2.13 gigatons of carbon, which is ~ 7.8 gigatons of CO2. (1) We add about 43 gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere per year 55% of which is absorbed by natural sinks. We're definitely not adding 26 ppm of C02 to the atmosphere each year.

1.https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=45

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by pfdietz on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:35PM (#28674297)
Mt. Everest has a mass of about 6 trillion tonnes.
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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by specialist on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:42PM (#28674390)
Ugh. Stupid brain. Trying to get sense of the challenge, I worked some numbers to try visualizing how much carbon we're talking about. I'll refind my notes or recreate.

Thanks.

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