Saturday, November 27, 2010

The Week In Green Numbers

1.3 million

- sharks harvested by industrial-scale fisheries in the Atlantic in 2008 #

75%

- proportion of the Atlantic's shark species threatened with extinction #

0.08 - 0.16° C

- increase in global temperature over the last decade #

120 million acres

- area of Alaska designated "critical polar bear habitat" #

56 gigatonnes

- expected world output of CO2 in 10 years time. The "safe" limit is 44 gigatonnes #

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