Hourly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by the USA. Illustration of a pile of metric ton spheres of CO2 gas engulfing central Washington DC, USA. Each sphere is 10 metres in diameter (535 cubic metres) and represents greenhouse gas-equivalent volumes of CO2 gas. A metric ton (tonne) is 1000 kilograms. In 2014, the United States of America added over 6.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. One hour of US emissions would produce a pile of 783, 727 of these spheres, rising to a height of 820 metres. These figures are from 2014. For a pile showing the size of the daily emissions, see image C036/1179. | |
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