The Crazy Scale of Human Carbon Emissions

Current data (from direct measurements of the atmosphere to historical records of industry) tells us that between 1751 and 1987 fossil fuels put about 737 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Total CO2 from industrialized humans in the past 263 years: 1,480 billion tons.
Now, let's relate that to something a bit easier to visualize. A coniferous forest fire can release about 4.81 tons of carbon per acre. At the low end, about 80% of that carbon comes out as CO2.
In other words, to release an equivalent CO2 mass to the past 263 years of human activity would require about 1.5 billion acres of forest to burn every year during that time.
That's 6 million square kilometres of burning forest every year for more than two centuries.
Except that is for an average output, spread across 263 years.
Estimates of today's CO2 production go as high as about 40+ billion tons per year. That'd take something like 10 Billion acres of forest burning each year, which is about 42 million square kilometres.
The entire continent of Africa is a mere 30 million square kilometres. So AFRICA plus another third, on fire, each year...every year.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-crazy-scale-of-human-carbon-emission/

For those seeking more detail on the Paris Climate Accord

Click on the blue Facebook logo in the upper right-hand corner and then go to the comments for more information...

For those seeking more detail on the Paris Accord and climate disruption...

Sources: The data and scenarios are from...

Posted by Alex Tango Fuego on Friday, June 2, 2017

The Big Fix :: It Breaks My Heart

"We're no better than a third-world country." "The Gulf of Mexico is the toilet for the entire country." This breaks my heart. It breaks my heart that it happened in the first place. That all of the environmental disasters that have happened, happened in the first place. That it continues to happen. And it continues to be covered up, with our Federal Government and its "bought" regulators complicit in the cover ups. It breaks my heart that we are all complicit in all of these acts. We are complicit in that we look the other way, and go about our business as if nothing is wrong.

It breaks my heart.

http://www.thebigfixmovie.com/

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the_big_fix_2012/

Here's the link to Jeff Goodell's piece in Rolling Stone Magazine titled "The Poisoning".

Matthew Simmons, outspoken critic of BP, Founder and Chairman of The Ocean Energy Institute, "drowns" in his hot tub - read more here.

On Sunday :: Mother Earth. Worth Dying For?

Samsara

SAMSARA Theatrical Trailer from Baraka & Samsara on Vimeo.