Posted on 04/08/2008 1:10:10 PM PDT by backtothestreets
Just where is all that global warming pollution coming from?
The Northeast pumps out an awful lot of carbon dioxide, but the Southeast, Midwest and Southern California are also responsible for voluminous pollution that billows out each day.
The precise sources of carbon dioxide have now been mapped, with 100-times more detail than was previously available, by Vulcan project researchers at Purdue University.
The high-resolution, interactive maps combines emissions data from power plants, factories and vehicles, and produces maps and movies that compare the relative contribution of pollution from various parts of the country on an hourly basis. One of the most striking things one sees when watching the animations is the day-night "breathing" cycle of our pollution, with a long exhale of pollution all day, followed by a sharp decline each night. Seasonal spikes – such as those when hot days prompt millions of Americans to turn up their air conditioners – are also evident.
The maps also highlight an important political reality: While states in the Northeast, upper Midwest and West have agreed to state-level compacts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the nation's pollution won't be significantly cut until the South joins in. Depending on the estimate, the U.S. is the world's biggest, or second-biggest (next to China) producer of greenhouse gas emissions; it produces 25% of the world's carbon dioxide pollution, the key ingredient in atmospheric change fueling global warming.
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Here's the link to the YouTube video embedded on the article above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJpj8UUMTaI
My theory is that global warming starts at the mouth of Al Gore.
“At 2:18 into the video embedded into the article, something very curious is presented. It is a map showing carbon levels at 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM. What makes this curious to me, is that carbon levels are markedly lower later in the day.”
That makes perfect sense: Plants are consuming CO2 in the day as part of photosynthesis.
Does anyone know of any studies on this aspect.
Inasmuch as we are the world's highest efficiency producer, when we cut back production all that will do is move that production to other parts of the world where their efficiency is much lower than our own.
More CO2 will be produced as a consequence.
The narrator's explaination is that in the morning there is a higher temperature gradient in the morning, trapping in CO2 near the ground.
Atmospheric CO2 that is blamed for Global Warming occurs high in the troposphere, not near the ground, so the presented AM/PM contrasts are meaningless.
The US is a net carbon sink. We absorb and sequester more than we produce. A lot more.
From the time stamp on posts 2 and 3, obviously great minds think alike.
Makes perfect sense to me too. The maps presented offer me the best evidence yet that increased carbon gas levels are not due to human activity.
Horrors. And, all of this emission has resulted in a CO2 atmospheric content of 0.03%. For you journalists and political science majors out there, that’s 3 one hundredths of one percent. Yup, that’s going to boil us over. For our next lesson in science 101, we can talk about the absorption curves of CO2 and an even more harsh heat absorber....wait for it....H2O. Oh, the humanity.
Idiots don’t realize China has already passed the USA in CO2 and by 2014 will emit TWICE the CO2 that the US does. Of course, becasue they are a ‘developing’ country, they will not have to abide by any UN rules. This scam is created by socialist/marxists under the banner of enviromentalism. Their goal is the same as it has always been, destroy capitalism, ergo, the United States and Europe.
And considering that we are the worlds biggest consumers the more stuff we can produce here the less has to be moved from overseas. Lees transportation less CO2
Global warming is a fact and cyclical. Begins every spring.
Absolutely correct.
And that is why the environazis scream so loudly when you point that out to them “so what, we have to provide leadership”.
Baaaaaaaloney!
Ever see pictures of modern day China? They’re not running around in Mao caps and Hillary Clinton pamntsuits like they were 30 years ago.
They’re plenty modern and they can start paying for the privilege.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
The Great Global Warming Swindle Video - back on the net!! (click here)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
“The map is a joke! The South is evil,”
The pinheads that did this “study” can’t even read a map! It’s quite apparent that much of the C02 affecting the SE USA is coming from the Pacific! (China?)
What a deceptive statement and map. What does this map really show?
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