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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

2. What Is So Unique About CO2?

verfasst von : Nazim Muradov

Erschienen in: Liberating Energy from Carbon: Introduction to Decarbonization

Verlag: Springer New York

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Abstract

Considering that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is extremely low: only 400 ppm or 0.04 vol.%, it is surprising how much impact this gas exerts on life on our planet. What is so unique about CO2? In this chapter, Greenhouse effect, radiative forcing, global warming potential, global carbon cycle, and other phenomena that control the livability of our planet are linked to unique optical and physicochemical properties of CO2. An increasing body of scientific evidence suggests that humans are affecting the Earth’s radiative and carbon balances mainly through increased emissions of greenhouse gases originating from industrial activities, land-use change, deforestation, and other practices that became prevalent during the rapid industrial development of the last two and half centuries.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Introduction to Carbon Civilization
Nächstes Kapitel Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions: Sources and Trends
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1
ppm stands for “part per million”; hereafter ppm relates to volume units (unless otherwise indicated), e.g., 1 ppm = 0.0001 vol%.
 
2
In this book, the amount of CO2 may be presented in the units of carbon (C) or CO2. For example, 1 GtC is equivalent of 3.66 GtCO2.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
What Is So Unique About CO2?
verfasst von
Nazim Muradov
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Verlag
Springer New York
Buch
Liberating Energy from Carbon: Introduction to Decarbonization

Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-0544-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4939-0545-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0545-4_2