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3rd World, Africa and South America, Major Sources of Greenhouse Gases -*-Must Read-*-
NASA and the University of Toronto ^
| 11/15/2001
Posted on 11/16/2001 1:19:19 PM PST by SocialMeltdown
See the photograph above?
It, and many others, were taken by NASA in a survey of global pollution, including greenhouse gases, in the atmospher.
The project was named MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Tropsphere).
The image above shows the emmission of greenhouse gases generated by 3rd world countries in practices such as "cut and burn" agriculture.
While first world nations also produce greenhouse gases, they burn fuel much more efficiently thereby generating less greenhouse gases.
Here's a sample of the text from the MOPITT web page:
Carbon monoxide is a gaseous byproduct from the burning of fossil fuels, in industry and automobiles, as well as burning of forests and grasslands. Notice in the April 30, 2000, image that levels of carbon monoxide are much higher in the Northern Hemisphere, where human population and human industry is much greater than in the Southern Hemisphere. However, in the October 30, 2000, image notice the immense plumes of the gas emitted from forest and grassland fires burning in South America and Southern Africa.
If you would like to learn much much more, YOU MUST LISTEN to the following sound file regarding the finding of this project:
MOPITT (3.77 MB, 8 minutes)
If for any reason the download doesn't work for you, you can go directly to the web page where it is found:
Quirks and Quarks
* NOTICE* If you know anyone who is interested in issues of Global Warming, please ask them to review this post.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africawatch; enviralists
To: SocialMeltdown
What does Eastern China look like?
To: CheneyChick
And don't foget India where funeral pyres are still used to dispose of dead bodies.
To: SocialMeltdown
Scientific clarification: the analysis of carbon MONOXIDE (CO) levels is important to a quantification of surface atmospheric pollution, but CO is not considered a greenhouse gas. CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a major greenhouse gas. Biomass burning contributes a negligible amount of CO2 to the atmosphere compared to fossil fuel energy production. However, the black soot aerosols released by biomass burning may actually be more important (and more controllable) than CO2 emissions. One poster asked about China: China is a major source of industrial black soot aerosol pollution. As this type of pollution is also a significant cause of pulmonary health problems, China should be encouraged to institute controls on black soot emissions for reasons of human health and climate. This is a major failing of the Kyoto Protocol (which has numerous other failings), but could still be a major part of U.S. climate change policy.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:19:44 PM PST
by
cogitator
To: SocialMeltdown
seeing as how there is "more" 3rd world, africa and south america than first world. this isn't really surprising.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:19:55 PM PST
by
gfactor
To: SocialMeltdown; *AfricaWatch; *Enviralists
A twofer!
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posted on
12/09/2001 3:31:23 AM PST
by
backhoe
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