Reading List
- The Scale of Emissions
Jesse Hoogland
In 2010, we emitted 49 gigatons of CO2 e100 (source). Averaged over the year's 32 million seconds, this amounted to roughly 1500 tons of CO2e released per second. Because our monkey brains are ill-equipped to understand how much this is, I've created a few tools to help you visualize these amounts (this works best on desktop).