Saturday, May 01, 2010

The Week In Green Numbers

6%

- proportion of it's total forest cover that the US lost 2000-2005 #

137 Gigatonnes

- loss of mass in the Greenland ice sheet in 2002 #

286 Gigatonnes

- loss of mass in the Greenland ice sheet in 2009 #

70%

- amount of freshwater available for human use that is used by agriculture #

210,000 gallons a day

- oil pumping into the Gulf of Mexico from a sunken oil rig, a week after it was claimed there was no leak #

18.89 kg of CO2 per month

- carbon footprint of this blog, the equivalent of 83 bottles of beer! #

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