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Nature 446, 24 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446024c; Published online 28 February 2007
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Never mind the footprint, get the mass right
Paul Jarvis1
- Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK
Your correspondent Geoffrey Hammond is being somewhat pedantic in calling for the 'carbon footprint' — amounts of carbon expressed in tonnes — to be called instead the 'carbon weight', because the essential property of a footprint is its area ("Time to give due weight to the 'carbon footprint' issue" Nature 445, 256; doi:10.1038/445256b 2007).
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