Re:When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
by wjnc on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:58AM
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Not to downplay, but when we peak, we’re long past peak per capita, so there’s hope that combined with peak population we would be on a path of increasing decrease. Half life of 120 years of athmosperic CO2 doesn’t make it an easy century. But which century was?
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Re:When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
by jcranmer on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:09AM
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World CO₂ per capita emissions have probably already peaked; at the very least, it's been roughly flat for the past decade or so: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Re:When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
by rr808 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:30AM
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Yes a decade roughly flat per capita but number of people has risen 10% in that time.
Re:When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
by mschuster91 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:40AM
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Unfortunately, it's not just CO2 that has an effect on climate... there's also other gases, particularly methane, that are relevant for climate change. And with the current warming going on, there will be not "just" the methane emissions from fermentation, cow farms and leaking natural gas pipelines, but also a ton of methane from currently thawing Russian permafrost, or methane clathrate deposits (which alone are estimated to hold more carbon than all other sources of fossil fuels combined).