Fact of the Month: June 2009

How much CO2 do we produce?

The rate at which humans are producing CO2 by burning fossil fuels and clearing tropical forests:

36,667 million tonnes a year
   = 100 million tonnes a day
       = 4 million tonnes an hour
              = 67,000 tonnes a minute
                     = Over 1,000 tonnes a second

CO2 is 44% of the cause of climate change.

56% is being caused by black carbon, methane, the F gases, and nitrous oxide.