Deutsche Bank's carbon counter is like watching a car crash in slow-mo
- Nathanael Greene
- Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City
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- Posted June 18, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
This is morbidly fascinating to watch. Deutsche Bank has launched a carbon counter. I'm sure there are others out there, but FWIW, they claim their's is the first scientifically valid one.
Just in the time between when they took the screen shot below to advertise it, the count has gone up over 100,000,000 metric tons. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, but we're in the car!
They also have a desktop widget so you can watch in dismay all through the day. Hopefully it will kick a few more of us in the pants and spurs us to action.
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Michael McGee — Jun 19 2009 12:36 AM
Climate change and the rapid rise of carbon emissions are important issues. The attention and awareness that Deutsche Bank is bringing to them is a helpful development.
Always keep in mind the ultimate objective behind the growing efforts to reduce emissions: to stabilize the concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases at a safe level in the atmosphere. World-leading climate scientists tell us that means getting atmospheric CO2 down to 350 parts per million.
To see the world’s most recent data for atmospheric CO2, visit Earth’s CO2 Home Page at http://co2now.org (hosted from servers powered directly by solar panels). Or add one of the free CO2Now widgets to your site – the world's first and only source for widgets that keeps current CO2 on display far and wide.
Atmospheric CO2 was 390.18 ppm in May 2009, the latest data available when the Deutsche Bank “carbon counter” widget was launched. Based on this almost-real time data, measured by NOAA scientists directly from the atmosphere, we can see that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 continues to accelerate upward from decade to decade.
Consider placing an emissions widget and an atmospheric CO2 widget side-by-side. The emissions level needs to be seen together with the atmospheric concentration, not in isolation.