Greenhouse Gas Emissions Explained
August 2nd, 2013 by Guest Contributor
This article originally published on Shrink That Footprint
by Lindsay Wilson
In 2010 human activity caused 50 Gt CO2e of greenhouse gas emissions.
These emissions were 76% carbon dioxide (CO2), 16% methane (CH4), 8% nitrous oxide (N20) and 2% F-gases.
The big terrestrial emitters were China (23%), the USA (14%), Europe (10%), India (5%) and Russia (5%).
And the primary sources of emissions were energy (35%), industry (18%), transport (13%), agriculture (11%), forestry (11%), buildings (8%) and waste (4%).
The sources are explained in more detail in the balloons above, which technically shouldn’t float so well 
. These balloons don’t look very threatening, but they represent the large majority of positive climate forcings.
Which in English means they are major causes of climate change.
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