Saturday, December 5, 2009

TEN GIGATONNES ... sounds like quite a lot ...

Gosh! (Sounds a lot, doesn’t it.)***

David Davis

But it’s 0.65% of the Earth’s atmospheric CO2…..ZERO POINT SIX-FIVE PERCENT. (I worked it out just now.)

How is this going to help? Can anyone tell me that the Earth’s climate teeters on either the brink of disaster or relaxes into neo-pastoral ideality, with a movement of +/- 0.65% in atmospheric CO2 concentration?

***Ten billion tonnes of CO2 gas at STP would occupy 5 x 10^+12 cubic metres, which is a cube 10.6 miles along one edge. (So what are they beefing about?) The earth’s atmospheric CO2 (at the same standardised conditions) now occupies a cuboid of the same height (10.6 miles) and an area of 101 by 159 miles…150 times as much…

***If it was Dry Ice, it would be, roughly, about 1/1000-th of this volume, which is a cube about 1,700 metres along an edge. (You’d be hard put to see it from space.)

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