Daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by the USA. Illustration of a pile of metric ton spheres of CO2 gas engulfing central Washington DC, USA. Each sp

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Daily 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 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. One day of US emissions would produce a pile of over 18 million of these spheres, rising to a height of kilometres. These figures are from 2014. For alternative views of this pile of CO2, see images C036/1179 and C036/1180.

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