Fossil Fuel Data

Description

Estimates of total worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuel use.

Usage

fossilfuel

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

year

a numeric vector giving the year the measurement was taken.

carbon

a numeric vector giving the total worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuel use, in millions of tonnes.

Details

Data for the years 1751 through to 2014 is available from Data for the years 2014 https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/portals/CDIAC

Source

Boden T A; Marland G; Andres R J (1999): Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions (1751 - 2014) (V. 2017). Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States), ESS-DIVE repository. Dataset. doi:10.3334/CDIAC/00001_V2017

Examples

plot(fossilfuel)