Over the past 250 years, we’ve burnt half a trillion tonnes of fossil fuels and deposited all that CO2 into the atmosphere. At the current rate of progress, we’re set to use the next half trillion tons in about 35 years with the resultant effects on global warming and climate change. Professor Myles Allen questions where we go from here.
What is the 'trillionth tonne'?
01 March 2013
with Professor Myles Allen
Professor of Geosystem ScienceMyles Allen is Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment. His research focuses on how human and natural inf...