Making Carbon Visible

April 15, 2008

Overcoming barriers and unlocking actions to tackle climate change is a real challenge. Making carbon visible is one way amongst others.

The Vulcan Project is a NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP)to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer than has been achieved in the past. The detail and scope of the Vulcan CO2 inventory has made it a valuable tool for policymakers, demographers and social scientists.

Like a heart pulsation, this animation shows the intensity of carbon emissions over a year. Worth seeing!

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"The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe." BARAK OBAMA

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