7.9 billion tons

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a new study from the Global Carbon Project found a sharp acceleration of human carbon emissions. Up until the year 2000, global carbon emissions rose annually 1%. Now the emissions are rising at 2.5% per year.

While these percentages seem small, consider that in 2000 we emitted 6.8 billion tons (gigatons, Gt) of carbon and 2005’s total was 7.9 Gt.

Yet another reminder that we as a planet have some serious work to do.

For further reading, check out the BBC article on this carbon emission study.

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Posted by Tim Roth, author of the political blog Think Anew and Act Anew