Net Rate of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Illustration 4.2 Net Rate of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions 

The release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and its attendant effect on global warming have been widely publicized in recent years. A warning call came in the late 1980s and early 1990s when it was established that carbon dioxide concentrations in the air, then at a level of 370 ppm, were 

The tools required for this task reside in Item 7 of Table 4.1 this information describes the continuous emission from an infinite plane, here taken to be the surface of Earth, into a semi-infinite domain, which is the atmosphere. 

We start by noting that at groimd level, x = 0, the expression given there reduces to the form 

We proceed as follows Solving for t we obtain, for the interval of observation of 1 year. 

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The release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and its attendant effect on climate change have been widely publicized in recent years. A warning call came in the late 1980s and early 1990s when it was established that carbon dioxide concentrations in the air, then at a level of 370 ppm, were growing at a rate of 2 ppm per year. What we wish to do here is use this information to calculate the net rate of global carbon dioxide emissions (i.e., the amount in excess of what is consumed by plant life or taken up by water basins). 

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