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Bookmark or Share- What Is a Gigaton? - Speed & ScaleIn 2019, for instance, the sum of all human-caused emissions was 59 gigatons. A gigaton is a billion metric tons. A metric ton equals 2,205 pounds, or about 10 percent heavier than a U.S. ton. How much is a single gigaton? It’s the weight of 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers. Burning 110 gallons of gasoline results in one ton of emissions.
- How Many Gigatons of CO2…? - Information is Beautiful» Examine the CO2 data for yourself: http://bit.ly/Gigatons_C02 » Get a downloadable, printable PDF poster of this image » See the previous graphic (April 2014)
- Gigatons: the Measure of Climate Change - Stories From Planet EarthClimate scientists often use the gigaton (one billion tons) to measure greenhouse gas emissions, glacier melt, and other chemical changes related to global climate. The gigaton is a unit of measure with few practical applications. At the human scale, it’s so massive that it almost has no meaning.
- To truly grasp what we’re doing to the planet ... - The Washington PostThe gigantic Totten Glacier of East Antarctica is losing 70 gigatons of ice per year, “enough to fill Sydney Harbour every two and a half days,” as one scientist with the Australian Antarctic ...
- Demystifying the Gigaton – Understanding Billions of Metric TonsGigatons provide a quantifiable way to grasp massive changes ongoing across Earth‘s oceans, ice sheets, ecosystems and climate. But maintaining the proper perspective is crucial when interpreting their scale.
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