Human carbon emissions
Also: Human CO2 emissions, global CO2 emissions, total CO2 emissions, global carbon emissions, total carbon emissions
Human CO2 emissions
Carbon released to atmosphere by humans in the form of CO2, mostly from burning fossil fuels. This graph shows how emissions have increased over time.
All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.