It sure looks like I was somehow using the 7.82 gigatonne number as the total, rather than multiplying it by the necessary 422.
A simple calculation in units(1) shows that your figure is the right order of magnitude:
You have: 400ppm 4pi earthradius**2 atm / gravity
You want: trillion tonnes
* 2.1080571
/ 0.47437046
That's a bit low because the 422 ppm number is by volume, not weight, but that is relatively easy to correct with the molecular masses, assuming ideal gas behavior:
A simple calculation in units(1) shows that your figure is the right order of magnitude:
That's a bit low because the 422 ppm number is by volume, not weight, but that is relatively easy to correct with the molecular masses, assuming ideal gas behavior: And that's within 3% of the number you give from Wikipedia.