Australia's daily greenhouse gas emissions (actual volume - cube)

In the year to September 2013 Australia added 542.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere (ref). That's nearly 1.5 million tonnes every day (1,485,017 tonnes). The daily emissions as carbon dioxide gas would fill a cube 926 metres high (3,038 feet) or a sphere 1,149 metres in diameter (3,769 feet).

 

Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott famously dismissed carbon dioxide as an "invisible substance": www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X--IsD3dCs. For his convenience, we have selected a view from his official residence in Sydney: Kirribilli House. If he could see it, maybe he would do something about it.

 

The image shows the actual volume of carbon dioxide gas at standard pressure and 15 °C.

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