In some ways, that BMW is also a carbon of Mr. Flusser himself.
The total load of particulate organic carbon of the world's rivers is 180 × 1012 grams per year.
But the key, said Mr. Carbon of DBS, is not to let the capital inflows get out of hand.
The methyl group is given the number 4, because it is bonded to the fourth carbon of the chain.
Brazil's draft national REDD law also states that indigenous people own the forest carbon of their reserves.
The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity.
My own favored number is one trillion tonnes total of carbon (of which we've already emitted roughly half).
It takes no account of the colossal cost in energy and carbon of destroying so much existing fabric and building it again.
Frum suggests a levy on carbon of $50 a ton, applied not only to oil but to coal, natural gas and (somewhat more lightly) ethanol.
It places an initial value on the price of carbon of around £16/tCO2 (2009 prices) in 2013, which will rise to £30/tCO2 (2009 prices) by 2020.
Some environmentalists support fracking and other means of extracting natural gas because gas emits a fraction of the carbon of either oil or coal.
