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Climate Change factoids #1

Sean Kidney 18 January 2006

Morsels for dinner part conversations

  • Number of coal-fired power plants China plans to build by 2012: 562
  • Estimated year China will overtake the United States as the number-one carbon emitter: 2025
  • Estimated year CO2 levels will hit 500 parts per million: 2050
  • Years since CO2 levels last hit 500 parts per million: 50 million
  • Average years it takes a CO2 molecule, once produced, to degrade: 100

Source:
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=1734&L2=18&L3=30&srid=17&gp=0



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