The Vulcan Project

A high-resolution map of U.S. CO2 emissions

Posted by David Roberts at 3:41 PM on 09 Apr 2008

Check out the Vulcan Project out of Purdue University (with funding from NASA and DOE). It's an attempt to quantify and visually represent U.S. CO2 emissions over time:

Here's a nifty video introduction:

(via Dot Earth)

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Less for Some, More for Others?

I don't know if I'm reading this right:

http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/analysis.html

But I think it's comparing 2002 CO2 data (their own) with a 1998 study.

The map shows the difference. Oddly, the entire West Coast shows a vast decrease.

Whereas the Southeast shows an increase.

Don't know how the AGWers interpret this for the stabilizing temperatures during the 1999-2008 period...

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by jabailo at 8:48 PM on 09 Apr 2008

Not sure...

Not sure what they mean by "annual" either, if it's just one year or on a multi-year scale, but..

It says:

*Brenkert, A.L., Carbon dioxide emission estimates from fossil-fuel burning, hydraulic cement production, and gas flaring for 1995 on a one degree grid cell basis (http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ndps/ndp058a.html), 1998.

So it may be a comparison between 1995 and 1998?

by Tasermons Partner at 9:09 PM on 09 Apr 2008

Map

Talk about a continental divide...

by Matt G at 11:12 AM on 10 Apr 2008

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