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They estimate that we emitted between 6.323 and 7.403 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in that year.
But this is silly, since the atmospheric lifetime of aerosols is just a matter of days, so once we stop burning coal, as we eventually must, the aerosols disappear quickly, unmasking the pent-up warming due to all the extra CO2 we emitted by not switching from coal to natural gas.
For perspective, we emitted over 32 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide last year (a gigatonne is one billion metric tonnes).
New data indicate that despite such pressing concerns, we emitted more carbon in 2013 than in any previous year.
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Today we emit 37 gigatons of CO2.
CO2 concentrations keep rising as we emit more CO2.
Yet for every ton of carbon we emit, we are firing a bullet into the air.
Updated at 10.19am BST 10.11am BST How much carbon can we emit?
When we visit a state, we emit a residue from the state's emission probability distribution.
When we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we increase the damage from greater climate volatility.
And how much we emit between now and then will determine where global temperatures end up.
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