Iori Komei
04-08-2008, 01:38 PM
A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100-square-kilometer chunks.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c344/iori_k/Post%20Pictures/CarbonFootprintMapUS.png
The work, known as The Vulcan Project, has already yielded a significant discovery: Previous CO2 estimates that used population as a proxy for emissions overestimated the Northeast's greenhouse-gas generation, while underestimating the coal-heavy Southeast's contribution.
LINK:
Wired (http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/scientists-unve.html)
It's definitely an interesting map, shows which states are the true 'culprits' in the CO2 emissions of the United States.
It does more or less look like what I would imagine, but I honestly would have though that Montana, the Dakotas and such would have less of a footprint do to their lower populations in comparison to other states.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c344/iori_k/Post%20Pictures/CarbonFootprintMapUS.png
The work, known as The Vulcan Project, has already yielded a significant discovery: Previous CO2 estimates that used population as a proxy for emissions overestimated the Northeast's greenhouse-gas generation, while underestimating the coal-heavy Southeast's contribution.
LINK:
Wired (http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/scientists-unve.html)
It's definitely an interesting map, shows which states are the true 'culprits' in the CO2 emissions of the United States.
It does more or less look like what I would imagine, but I honestly would have though that Montana, the Dakotas and such would have less of a footprint do to their lower populations in comparison to other states.