The State of Our Climate
Emissions
Mar 2016 research: Human carbon release rate is unprecedented in the past 66 million years of Earth's history- about 10 times faster
Total CO2 emission
by source (GCP 2021)
3 Aug 2020 RCP8.5 tracks emissions of worst-case cumulative CO2 emissions scenario- continues to apply
Also methane and nitrous oxide emissions Global Carbon Budget (2022)
IPCC AR6 Global GHG emissions
Global methane emissions
Tracking worst-case scenario
(Global Carbon Project 2020)
Now wetland Feedback emissions
Global nitrous oxide emissions
Tracking worst-case scenario
Feedback emissions
(Global Carbon Project 2020)
Black carbon (soot) aerosol emissions
CO2 equivalent emissions (all GHGs)
All record high, increasing equal to fastest rate