Water and carbon

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Daniel Trainor

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  • 95% of ice is locked in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica containing 99% of freshwater ice
  • If all ice sheets melt 60m sea level rise will occur
  • Ice in the Arctic is 65% thinner than 1975
  • Sea levels rise 6-8ft by 2100
  • Carbon stores

    • Peat: 250GtC
    • Atmosphere: 800GtC
    • Permafrost: 1400GtC
    • Sedimentary: 100millionGtC
  • PPM has increased 50% since industrialisation
  • CCS captures 90% of C02 emitted
  • Humans emit 30GtC per year, 300x volcanoes
  • Permafrost has a 20x warming effect over CO2
  • 90% of global CO2 emissions are fossil fuels
  • 10% of all CO2 released is from land use change
  • Wildfires emitted 33.9GtC from 2001-2021
  • Canadian fires in 2023 emitted 2.2bn tons
  • In 1816 Mount Tambora produced enough ash and aerosols to cancel the European summer and lowered global temp by 0.4-0.7°C
  • Deforestation accounts for 20% of global co2 emissions
  • 48% of emissions from crops are rice farming
  • Cement industry contributes 7.5% to total anthropogenic co2 emissions
  • 2% of earth is urban but responsible for 97% anthropogenic C02 emissions
  • albedo effect reflects 30% of solar radiaton
  • humans have already caused a 1“C increase if it reaches 1.5C increase 70% more sea ice will be lost
  • The paris agreement includes 196 countries agreed to keep global temperate rise below 2”C
  • UNEP estimates annual costs to mitigate could be around 3 trillion by 2050
  • 10 million more people will lose homes to sea level rise by 1.5”C increase
  • Uk is aiming to reach net zero by 2050
  • Frieberg also aims to be 100% renewable by 2050
  • France ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2040
  • 80% of deforested land is used for cattle ranching
  • melting permafrost causes 7-40 million tonnes of C02 released per year
  • ppt- 75% intercepted by trees 25% evapotranspires
  • Legally binding target for UK to redice GHG emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050
  • enteric fermentation accounts for 40% if total methane emissions worldwide
  • rice-fish farming reduces methane by 11%
  • (ploughing) soils lose 3 tonnes/ha/year of carbon
  • 30% increase in cattle in eden valley
  • 10,000 new homes (impearmeable)(Construction) eden balley
  • carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 emitted during production, transportation and disposal of goods or services.
  • 300bn trees in amazon
  • absorbs 1/4 of all c02
  • amazon rainforest has been reduced by 50% since 70's
  • Slash and burn techniques can cause soils to lose 60% of carbon