Humanity dumped 37 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2020

The worst pandemic in a century won't make a dent in humanity's accelerating carbon problem. 

In 2020, civilization emitted an estimated 34 billion tonnes (or 37.5 billion tons) of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to an annual analysis released Thursday by the Global Carbon Project, an organization that annually compiles worldwide carbon emissions. Because the pandemic temporarily depressed economic activity and slowed travel while luridly killing well over 1.5 million people (with over 290,000 deaths in the U.S. alone as of Dec. 10), global carbon dioxide emissions were seven percent lower than they were in 2019.  Read more...

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