First carbon map of America released by NASA

mongabay.com ^ | July 15, 2008 | Jeremy Hance

[smokingfrog]

For the first time, one can have a whole view of America's carbon output: region by region, city by city. The Vulcan Project has undertaken a holistic inventory—including electricity, heat, transportation, and industry—of local carbon emissions across the nation to create the first carbon map of America. Texas leads the fifty states, and the county of Harris, Texas (encompassing Houston) records the nation's largest emissions by county. Although Texas is second in population after California, its massive industry puts it over the top.

[smokingfrog]

Texas leads the way!

[gridlock]

I can see my house from here!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Is this the same data NASA used to show that 1998 was the hottest year ever?

[Coffee200am]

Tax map???

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[avacado]

" Texas leads the fifty states, and the county of Harris, Texas (encompassing Houston) records the nation's largest emissions..."

And for anyone who has been to Houston and the surrounding areas they know how unbelievably green this area is with plant life.

[AnAmericanMother]

You know, if you look at that map it's the major population centers that produce the most carbon. DUH!

This campaign is beginning to sound like Pol Pot wanting to get everybody out of the cities and back to the land . . . whether they wanted to or not.

[NativeNewYorker]

This campaign is beginning to sound like Pol Pot wanting to get everybody out of the cities and back to the land . . . whether they wanted to or not.

We have a winner.

[Rebelbase]

Looks like the country has a rash as well as a fever>

[ModelBreaker]

Hmmm. It looks like a map of . . . can it be? Cities in America. Shocking.

[Graycliff]

Texas leads the way!

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Wa Hoo!!! We’re #1, We’re #1.

[Graycliff]

Texas leads the way!

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Wa Hoo!!! We’re #1, We’re #1.

[driftdiver]

They were gonna do one of these maps for China but couldn’t see thru the smog.

[SpaceBar]

For once I actually agree with Richard Hoagland (face on mars guy). Pull all funding from NASA. They are headed by incompetants, and have outlived their usefulness as a government agency.

[DeFault User]

It can be clearly seen that those folks out in Nevada and Wyoming are slackers!

[MattinNJ]

Texas-go big or go home.

Sigh. I should have been a Texan.

[tatsinfla]

i’m moving to montana or n or s dakota, no carbon there.

[Devilinbaggypants]

Maybe one day we’ll be the Republic of Texas again! Screw the environazis I’m damn proud of my size 20 carbon footprint...and like Pope Algore I plan on increasing it by 10% every year till we freeze over!

[Syntyr]

Harris County Texas!!!
Wohoo Thats where I live!

[cookcounty]

Where’s the carbon sink map?

[Just another Joe]

Notice how the lines of carbon follow the major highways?

I wonder why the major lakes don't show up in red.

You would think that lakes such as Lake of the Ozarks would be a major contributor.

[TChris]

Gentle reminder for all:

CO₂ is not a pollutant!

[Arrowhead1952]

Texas / Houston win again!!

[GOP Poet]

Interesting. I am so sick of the word carbon already. I'll be happy if I never hear it again unless it is in the following sentence, “The word became obsolete in 2008 when it was proved that human caused global warming was a fallacy.”

[kittymyrib]

Yea! We’re #1!!!
Of course, NASA doesn’t list all the billions of dollars Texas adds to the economy of the USA with that carbon output.

Maybe we ought to get rid of the NASA space program that uses tremendous amounts of energy for negligible results to the common working tax drone.

If we were to put a pencil to the input costs vs. the output gain, the first thing to eliminate is the government. It is energy wasteful, with millions of worthless employees raveling to their unnecessary jobs daily to produce nothing but redtape that slows down the economy.

[A Texan]

I agree, I live in the Galleria area and I can attest to that. Not to mention you can drive for an hour down I-45 and still not make it out of Houston city limits.

[evets]

TEXAS 'carbon footprint'.
!

[FlingWingFlyer]

If there is one thing that I do agree with Obama on it’s his plan to cut back on NASA funding. NASA has lost it’s focus on what it was supposed to be doing and become just another environmental “study” group for the DNC. IMHO, taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund those engaged in perpetrating the “global warming” hoax on the American people.

[depressed in 06]

Looks more like a map of where Bolshecrats live.

[dblshot]

“For once I actually agree with Richard Hoagland (face on mars guy). Pull all funding from NASA. They are headed by incompetants, and have outlived their usefulness as a government agency.”

An axiom of Systemantics is that all systems eventually grow so large they oppose their own proper functions.

[VaBthang4]

How odd; all the Liberals areas are real carbon emmiters.

Hmmmmmm.....

[dblshot]

I think I can see Al Gore’s mansion there.

[Rebelbase]

Wouldn’t a little Penicillin clear that up?

[MediaMole]

Bulletin: The US Department of Global Warming has announced that all individuals in the United States must report to the new global warming remediation camps immediately.

Please report to the camps in the next 24 hours. Camps can be identified by the motto “Tod macht kühl” over the gate. There is no need to bring clothing, food or supplies, anything you need will be provided.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

What does the map of China look like?

[tacticalogic]

i’m moving to montana or n or s dakota, no carbon there.

If there's no carbon, then there's no charcoal. If there's no charcoal then there's no barbeque.

[Little Ray]

Actually, it looks like the carbon follows the Interstate Highway System. Go figure.

[Yaelle]

Scuse me? (Raising hand in the back of the room) Where is the carbon GOING?

[tatsinfla]

GOOD POINT! staying in daytona then.

[PeterPrinciple]

I am so sick of the word carbon already.

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at lease it is easier to spell than tsunami........... don't worry, there is be a new fashion word in the near future.

[smokingfrog]

This is a pretty good video if you are interested. Revolutionary CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources

[Mr Rogers]

Hmm...looks like a map of the Interstate Highway system.

Blame Eisenhower and evil Republicans!

[Rebelbase]

Or a picture of a social disease with red blotches at outbreak points.

[KosmicKitty]

Hey, I’m in Connecticut & it’s pretty red here too!!

[IYAS9YAS]

I am so sick of the word carbon already.

They put up posters advertising the NM Rail Runner that say "Reduce Your Carbon Footprint." They show a picture of earth from space. I have wanted to put up a picture of a volcano spewing ash everywhere and stating "You First!"

I also thought of a picture of a sapling with the words "Why, do you want me to die?" or "I breath CO2 to live, take it from me, I die." on them.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Interesting. I am so sick of the word carbon already. I'll be happy if I never hear it again unless it is in the following sentence, “The word became obsolete in 2008 when it was proved that human caused global warming was a fallacy.”

Fine and dandy except the word "carbon" isn't in your sentence... ;-)

[Rippin]

Thank you! Fortunately the tradwinds help to spread the concentration of this wonderful nutrient throughout the whole ‘planet.’

[Political Junkie Too]

I bet North Korea isn't putting out any carbon.

-PJ

[KarlInOhio]

Annual Carbon Emissions (kilotons)

Kilotons? is that per minute, hour, day or year? Is it per person, square foot, square meter, or square mile?

Is this what passes for "global warming" research?

[Roccus]