• Germany's SGL Carbon (6, SGG) has fallen 33% since May and has yet to recover as it supplies primarily the hard-hit steel and semiconductor industries with carbon and graphite products, which include electrodes, laboratory components and furnace linings.

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  • Etay also mentions the Nimkey Trojan that infiltrated a Romanian cement company late last year and stole 1.6 million carbon credits from their trading account.

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  • Beneath its carbon fiber skin the 6.5-litre V12 engine and seven-speed single-clutch gearbox get the car to 60 miles per hour in a flat three seconds.

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  • In 2009, the U.S. economy emitted 6, 576 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e), nearly 6% below the level of emissions for 2008, according to Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2009.

    FORBES: U.S. Carbon Emissions Plunge

  • The Aerospace industry generally uses 3K or 6K strands, which have 3, 000 or 6, 000 carbon filaments per thread.

    BBC: Knitting and baking the cars of the future

  • That means fewer tractors and the carbon-sparing equivalent of taking 6 million cars off the road.

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  • As trees died off, the Amazon released between 1.2 billion and 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to the scientific journal Nature.

    BBC: The repercussions of rainforest reduction

  • Before Copenhagen, according to an analysis by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a not-for-profit organisation devoted to climate policy, these commitments added up to an annual reduction of 3.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with business as usual, by 2020.

    ECONOMIST: What countries are currently offering on climate

  • All told, the global total is about 1.3 billion tonnes 6% of man-made carbon-dioxide emissions even without the effect of fire.

    ECONOMIST: Peat bogs and climate change

  • He noted that the old Reichstag, heated and cooled by fossil fuels, produced 6, 400 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

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  • Although this marks the is the largest percentage increase in U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions since 1988, emissions are still 6% below the 2005 level.

    FORBES: U.S. Carbon Emissions Exploded in 2010, Largest Single Year Rise in 22 Years

  • Although this is impressive, America's Department of Energy has calculated that carbon materials will need to be able to store 6.5% of their own weight of hydrogen in order to make fuel-cell cars practical (defined as having a range of 500km, or 310 miles, between refuelling stops).

    ECONOMIST: Space-age soot

  • Long barrows are ancient Neolithic burial sites from about 6, 000 years ago, but radio carbon dating has shown the bones date to between 1523 and 1799.

    BBC: Incomplete human skeleton

  • Figures for 2010 show the island emitted 379.1kt of carbon dioxide equivalent, which was a decrease of 11.6% on the 2009 figures.

    BBC: Guernsey greenhouse gas decrease continues

  • The Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 pact aimed at reining in carbon emissions, aimed to limit that increase to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) by 2100 -- but a November report by the World Bank warned that trends point more toward an increase twice that big by the end of the century.

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  • For extra credit, perhaps one of you enterprising readers would like to calculate how much carbon dioxide has been released into the air by the burning of 6.3 million gallons of oil.

    FORBES: BP Oil Spill: By The Numbers

  • The group said it had reduced carbon emissions relative to the turnover of its UK businesses by 5.6% in the two years to 30 April 2011 as a result of a package of measures designed to make the group more sustainable.

    BBC: Perth firm Stagecoach in greener fuel move

  • From 1996 to 2010, the shift to biotech crops reduced carbon emissions by 19.4 billion kilograms, the equivalent of removing 8.6 million cars from the road for a year.

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  • The IPCC in February 2007 projected that if carbon dioxide levels doubled relative to pre-industrial levels, temperatures could rise between 3.6 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius) by 2100.

    CNN: Global warming: A natural cycle or human result?

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