A comparison of estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil carbon sources

Andrew, Robbie M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1437-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1437-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1437-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Review article

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29 Jun 2020

Review article |

| 29 Jun 2020

A comparison of estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil carbon sources

Robbie M. Andrew

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RC1: 'Review Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Review ESSD-2020-34', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Apr 2020
SC1: 'Some comments', Robert Gieseke, 10 May 2020
AC1: 'Responses to reviews', Robbie Andrew, 27 May 2020

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ED: Publish as is (29 May 2020) by David Carlson

Short summary

There are now several global datasets with estimates of global CO₂ emissions from fossil sources, but the totals from these differ. Sometimes the range of these estimates has been used to indicate uncertainty in global emissions. In this paper I discuss the reasons why these datasets differ, particularly their different system boundaries: which emissions sources are included and which are omitted. Analysis is both qualitative and quantitative.