The shocking growth of human emissions is shown in this visualisation from the Potsdam Institute:
CO2
- Electricity generation – coal, gas, oil,
- Transportation
- Heating
- Manufacturing – metal smelting, fertiliser, cement, chemicals, textiles, rubber, paper
- Desalination
- Deforestation
Methane
- Undersea clathrates
- Melting permafrost
- Fracking wells
- Gas infrastructure
- Coal mines
- Dairy farming
- Garbage dumps
NOx
- Transportation
- Agriculture
HFCs
- Refrigeration, air conditioning
- 1000s of times the warming effect of CO2
- Kigali agreement – most nations’ emissions to peak by mid-2020s
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