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1 cup of coffee = 400gr CO2 = 260 kg of glacial ice.
#Poore et al 2019 https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf1kg of pizza = 19kg of CO2 = 12.3 t of glacial ice.
#Irz et al 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251236631_Inter-household_variations_in_environmental_impact_of_food_consumption_in_Finland1kg CO2 ultimately melts 650 kg of glacial ice
#Caldeira https://kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-much-ice-is-melted-by-each-carbon-dioxide-emission/Because it is related to the new AMOC paper with the adjusted #Greenland ice melt: the 2024 update to the State Of The Cryosphere https://iccinet.org/statecryo24/
They refer to that other new study, the one specifically on accelerated Greenland melt, #Greene et al 2024 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06863-22/2
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1kg CO2 ultimately melts 650 kg of glacial ice. Wow. And communicating it in kilos opens a whole new can o' beans in terms of palpable imagination, too close to home for comfort.
@KenCaldeira
: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-much-ice-is-melted-by-each-carbon-dioxide-emission/Two examples:
1 cup of coffee = 400gr CO2 = 260 kg of glacial ice. *1kg of pizza = 19kg of CO2 = 12.3 t of glacial ice. **
* #Poore et al 2019 https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf
** #Irz et al 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251236631_Inter-household_variations_in_environmental_impact_of_food_consumption_in_Finland