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Edit: The USA is still the only big country with a carbon footprint way above 10 tonnes per capita and year.

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Tonnes and Tønnes are Danish diminutive forms of the name Antonius.

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Tonnes and Tønnes are Danish diminutive forms of the name Antonius.

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Tonnes and Tønnes are Danish diminutive forms of the name Antonius.

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Edit: The USA is still the only big country with a carbon footprint way above 10 tonnes per capita and year.

What happens if, say, country A is being badly affected by climate change, and they have the means to pump tonnes of SO2 into the atmosphere?

We ran tonnes of more grounding wires through the modules and that took care of the problem.

There's a lot of energy in those 112 tonnes, but you really need a fast reactor to burn it.

But we do now have 112 tonnes of Plutonium as a result of our half a century of reprocessing.

It looks like about 0.6-0.75 tonnes of Carbon per ton of recycled paper.

For reference, this is like 15 tonnes of TNT released on impact.

Whilst some companies have moved away from it as they have gotten bigger, there are tonnes of companies that are still using it successfully.

And Austria repatriated 110 tonnes from the Bank of England this year.

Exhibit 4 has some numbers you'd probably find useful, such as the benefit or recycling in terms of tonnes of Carbon per ton of paper recycled.

I was thinking that myself but then realised most of the 12 tonnes mentioned is going to be towards the base (engine, etc).

> The Mount Pinatubo eruption emitted 42 million tonnes of CO2 (Gerlach et al 1996).

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Or did you mean that the rule should only apply to "hunks of metal" 375 tonnes and over (which is pretty damn huge, given that an A330 has a maximum takeoff weight of around 230 tonnes)?

"Not allow poor countries to emit more than 1.44 tonnes of carbon per person by 2050, while allowing rich countries to emit 2.67 tonnes." I'm not saying this isn't true.

"It is now known that any prolonged human presence deeper in space would need to be behind a shield of the effective strength of two feet of lead, which would weigh 400 tonnes for a small capsule." Uhm, the first thing that comes to my mind - regardless of whether this black hole propulsion might actually work - is the amount of lead we have available.

Here's an excerpt: """ Under the constant scenario, an American who forgoes having a child would save 9,441 tonnes of CO2 – almost six times, on average, the amount of CO2 they would emit in their own lifetime, or the equivalent of making around 2,550 return aeroplane trips between London and New York.