The New Carbon Cycle   
by Save Our Earth (5th June 2021, 10th April 2023)


The New Carbon Cycle is termed as the exploitation and extraction from the Earth whereby our actions have begun to create our own Extinction.


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414.4 ppm

This concentration was last seen 3 million years ago when the temperature was 2-3C higher
than pre-industrial area and sea level was 15-25 metres higher than today

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417.2 ppm

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1892.3 ppb (parts per billion)

14.7 ppb (or 6%) increase in 2020 was the largest since measurements began in 1983

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1911.9 ppb (parts per billion)

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The Tropics lost 12.2 million hectares of tree cover in 2020.
Of that, 4.2 million hectares (the size of Netherlands) was from humid tropical primary forests

This was 12% higher than 2019 and the second year in a row that primary forest loss worsened.

Resulting Carbon emissions from this primary forest loss is equivalent to the annual emissions of 570 million cars.

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Tropical primary forest loss in 2021 amounted to 3.75 million hectares (9.3 million acres)
– roughly the same level of the previous three years if burned areas are excluded.

Tropical forest countries lost a total of 11.1 million hectares of tree cover–an area the size of Cuba.

Deforestation within oil palm plantations amounted to 19,000 hectares in 2021, 50% less than in 2020.

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21-24 cm - a third coming in the past 25 years

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97mm above 1993 Levels

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92.2 million barrels per day (estimated)

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99.4 million barrels per day (estimated)

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+1.17 C (above pre-industrial)

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+1.06 C (above pre-industrial)

2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record based on NOAA’s temperature data.

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400 billion tons of total glacier loss per year since 1994

Greenland and Iceland lost 294 billion metric tons per year

Arctic Sea Ice has decreased by 13.1% per decade (annual Arctic minimum)

Antarctica Ice has decreased by 127 billion metric tons per year

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Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 14.88 million sq km - approx 770,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 average max.
In January 2023 it lost 1.89 million sq km, about twice the size of Germany.

Antarctic sea was covered by only 2.20 million sq km of sea ice in February 2023.
This beat the previous minimum of 2.27 million sq km in February 2022.

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- Estimates vary greatly and these figures now appear vastly underestimated -

5.25 trillion pieces; 269,000 tons float

70% of debris sinks into the oceans, 15% floats and 15% lands on beaches

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas and outnumbers sea life by 6 to 1.

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Estimated 75 to 199 million tonnes are currently found in the oceans

Unless action is taken to reduce and reuse, the oceans and rivers could be polluted with 23-37 million tonnes each year by 2040.

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November 2020 was the warmest on record, followed by January, May and September 2020.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season produced 30 named storms; The Pacific Hurricane produced 17 and Pacific Typhoon produced 23.


See Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather

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The following weather records were broken in 2022:

  • Temperatures in the UK reached 40C for the first time, affecting people, infrastructure and led to wildfires.
  • Europe had its hottest summer ever recorded and 2022 was the second warmest on record with 0.3C warmer than 2021. Several countries experienced their warmest year on record.
  • Europe had its worst drought for 500 years.
  • Famine was triggered in Somalia and Ethiopia due to drought, the worse in 40 years.
  • Wildfires scorched Europe - more land was burnt than any other year apart from 2017.
  • India experienced its hottest March since records began 120 years ago and it also reached 65C in April. In Pakistan, the temperature reliably reached 50.2C in April.
  • Pakistan experienced record monsoon rainfall in June to August leading to to flash floods and uprooting 32 million people. Some areas had 3-8 times their normal rainfall.



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Pre-Industrial Era is defined as 1850 to 1900.