Reduce Carbon Footprint by Decreasing the Amount of CO2

In a stroke of sheer brilliance, Null Hypothesis, the journal ofunlikely science, weird science has cracked Richard Branson's climate change earth challenge to reduce the carbon footprint. Less than a month into Richard Branson's five-year Virgin Earth competition, Null Hypothesis will take its winning idea for reducing the carbon footprint to Virgin Earth and walk away with a cool $25 million.

The solution to the reduction of our Carbon Footprint and Virgin's Earth Challenge set by Richard Branson (not to mention our, global, problem of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere) is closer to hand than we could ever have imagined. Null Hypothesis believe the answer is, quite simply, stop breathing; or at least breathe less.

The average person takes 24,000 breaths a day, breathing in approximately 6g of carbon dioxide, but breathing out around 800g during the same time forever adds to the increase of our carbon footprint upon the earth. Over a year, you personally will add a net 290kg of CO2 (carbon dioxide) to the Earth's atmosphere, just by exhaling. Multiply that by a global population of 6.5 billion and it adds up to a criminal 1.88 gigatonnes.

Null Hypothesis believe that If we each merely cut out one breath in three, we could reduce our carbon footprint by decreasing the amount of CO2 (carbon dioxide) entering the atmosphere each year by a staggering 0.63 gigatonnes. That's 0.63 billion tonnes - the same effect as saving 5 million acres of land (an area the size of Wales) from deforestation, or recycling 192 million tones of waste instead of trashing it.
But we don't want to stop there. Let's get really ruthless.

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Null Hypothesis, The journal of unlikely science,<a href="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk">wierd science, <a href="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk">strange science has cracked Richard Branson's climate change earth challenge to reduce the carbon footprint.