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2 months ago
TEDxPSU - Michael Mann - A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future
Michael Mann is a professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, a climatologist, and the director of the Earth System Science Center at P...
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2 months ago
Carbon Footprint: Perverts Importance of CO2 (short version)
The carbon footprint concept has resulted in the EPA proposal that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a pollutant. It is not a pollutant, but is essential for...
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8.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hour
Using the Albert carbon calculator, the BBC has determined that each hour of television output has a carbon footprint of 8.2 tonnes CO2 (on averag...
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1 year ago
392 parts per million
17,699 air particles at sea-level density in a cube 89 nanometres high (about the size of a flu virus). Circled particles are carbon dioxide molecu...
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1 year ago
A "drop in the ocean": what 70 thousand barrels of oil a day looks like in real-time
Oil is gushing from BP's Deepwater Horizon well at an estimated rate of 70 thousand barrels a day (May 2010). This film shows what that rate of flo...
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2 years ago
Central Bedfordshire Council's carbon emissions (2008/9) - actual volume of gas in real-time
Like all councils, Central Bedfordshire Council is keen to reduce its carbon footprint. The first step is understanding where savings can be made. ...
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4 seconds of global carbon dioxide emissions: actual volume of gas in real-time
Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2006 (957 tonnes per second) could fill a volume of the same dimensions as the UN Building in New York every hal...
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60 seconds of global carbon dioxide emissions: actual volume of gas in real-time
Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2006 (957 tonnes per second) are shown as actual volumes of gas with the United Nations Building for scale. Emis...
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Per-capita carbon dioxide emissions: actual volume of gas in real-time
Per-capita carbon dioxide emissions in 2006 shown as actual volumes of gas creating an animated bar-chart. The countries/regions displayed (in orde...
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Yes! Carbon dioxide is vital to life on Earth, but it is potent stuff. Just 280 parts per million in the atmosphere allows plants to grow and keeps surface temperatures about 30 °C higher than they would be otherwise. And you want to double or tripple the amount of this potent gas? You think that...