More crime in France than in US:
english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com
Satellite imaging demonstrates that most greenhouse gases are emitted in South America, Africa and Asia:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Click on "movie" or where it says "click here to start animation". In South America, caused by slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon, in Africa, by brush fires in the Sahel due to drought. In 2000, there were forest fires in Indonesia, not sure where else in Asia. So I don't know whether Asian CO2 is due to forest fires, humans using wood for fuel, or dirty industry.
There is a plume of CO2 from the US in early August, 2000, which coincides with a period of forest fires that burned on approximately 1 million acres across 12 western states.
One of the things that intrigues me the most about the animation is how much more CO2 is being emitted worldwide when the imaging begins in March, 2000, and how it declines rapidly except for the hot spots. I wonder if it was industrial in origin, and if the decline has is any connection to the worldwide economic slowdown? Or were there forest fires?
It sort of gives a new complexity to the debate about global warming if it's being caused by indigenous peoples, peasants, farmers, and forest fires, doesn't it? The billion people in India and the billion people in China cooking their daily meal and warming their tiny hovels?
Not politically acceptable - it must be caused by greedy capitalists in their SUVs.:) |
