CO2

• Fossil fuel CO₂ emissions continuing to increase at 2 percent per year as in the past decade, will yield additional warming of 2 degrees Celsius or 3 degrees Celsius this century. Such a drastic increase would imply changes that constitute practically a different planet.
• The changes include not only loss of the Arctic, but also wildlife and indigenous peoples, and losses on a much vaster scale due to worldwide rising seas.
• The new sea level will include not only most of the ice from Greenland and West Antarctica, but a portion of East Antarctica, raising sea level 25 meters (80 feet)
• Global warming in just the past 30 years is more than one-half degree Celsius, about 1 degree Fahrenheit in 30 years.
•  About CO₂ is that about 40 percent of annual fossil fuel emissions continue to be soaked up.  And if we decreased CO₂ emissions and improved reforestation and agricultural practices, we could probably increase the percentage uptake.

Reflection »« hurricanes and trees