GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION FACTOIDS
Source: Clean AirCool Planet, 2007A ton of CO2e is emitted when YOU:
- Travel 2,000 miles in an airplane
- Drive 1,350 miles in a large sport utility vehicle.
- Drive 1,900 miles in a mid-sized car.
- Drive 6,000 miles in a hybrid gasoline-electric car.
- Run an average US household for 60 days.
- Graze one Ugandan dairy cow for eight months
To Offset 1,000 tons of CO2e You could:
- Move 145 drivers from large SUVs to hybrids for one year.
- Run one 600 kW wind turbine for an average year.
- Replace 500 100-watt light bulbs with 18-watt compact fluorescent lights
- Replace 2,000 refrigerators with the highest efficiency model
- Install 125 home solar panels in India (20-year life)
- Protect four acres of tropical rainforest from deforestation
Average CO2e Emissions per year:
- 4.5 tons for the average U.S. Car
- 4.5 tons for the average global citizen
- 6.2 ton for electricity use of the average U.S household
- 21 tons for the average U.S. resident
- 1.5 million tons for a 500 MW gas power plant
- 8.3 million tons for an older 1,000 MW coal plant
- 6 billion tons for the US as a whole
- More than 25 billion tons for the planet as a whole