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Carbonics Capital Corporation
http://www.carbonicscapital.com/

 

The Earth’s natural carbon cycle is out of balance.

We produce carbon dioxide in just about everything we do, starting with breathing. An average person will exhale about 23 tons of carbon dioxide over an average life span of 70 years. The 6 billion people on our planet produce about 2 billion tons per year of carbon dioxide at zero industrial activity.

Fossil fuel combustion and other industrial processes release about 26 billion tons per year of carbon dioxide (containing 7 billion tons of carbon). While this represents only about 1% of the estimated total amount of carbon resident in the atmosphere, natural processes have not been able to balance out the increase.

This is evidenced by the fact that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have risen 35% from pre-industrial levels of about 280 parts per million to the current level of about 380 parts per million.

While each new part per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere corresponds to a total of 7.7 billion new tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide, half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere is absorbed into the Earth’s oceans and forests.

This means that human activity has released about 1.5 trillion tons of carbon dioxide (containing 420 billion tons of carbon) into the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial era. The total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the early 1800s was about 2.1 trillion tons; the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today is about 2.9 trillion tons.

At current and expected rates of production, we will release another 2.7 trillion tons of carbon dioxide (containing 756 billion tons of carbon) during the next 50 years, and the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be about 4.3 trillion tons. This corresponds to an atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration of 560 parts per million, which is /double/ the pre-industrial concentration.

The Earth’s natural mechanisms for processing carbon dioxide are not keeping up with us. We need to help if severe climate change is to be avoided.

New technologies will be needed to stem the tide, reverse the flow and ultimately shut off the tap, but we can take action immediately. The first critical steps are simply to be smarter about how we consume fossil fuels and to use carbon-neutral fuels as much as possible.

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(Updated 29 June 2009 - Lightbeam)