Human Activities and the Global Carbon Dioxide Budget

Figure 27.1

This figure appears in chapter 27 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/response-strategies/mitigation/graphics/human-activities-and-global-carbon-dioxide-budget

Figure shows human-induced changes in the global carbon dioxide budget roughly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Emissions from fossil fuel burning are the dominant cause of the steep rise shown here from 1850 to 2012. (Global Carbon Project 2010, 2012da606b84-6d9a-4d7c-9bc0-73a22c1fca43 7b0489fe-3bdf-4744-ae47-f0e48d53a7d2).

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References :

• Ten Years of Advancing Knowledge on the Global Carbon Cycle and its Management (da606b84)
• webpage Carbon Budget 2012: An Annual Update of the Global Carbon Budget and Trends (7b0489fe)

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