The United States Through a Carbon Lens

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Frederick R. Anderson

We wrote earlier this week about the prospect of a national GHG registry that could provide an up-close view of the nation’s carbon emitters. While we’re waiting, a team at Purdue has delivered a fascinating tool that provides a taste of that future. The Vulcan Project is a initiative funded by NASA and DOE that is taking emissions data from 2002 and presenting it in extraordinarily accessible ways.

This week, the Vulcan team released an application for Google Earth that allows everyone to view emissions state by state or county by county across the United States. You can even layer over emissions from power plants and transportation. The team has posted a You Tube video demonstrating their work here.

For the first time, you can fly over emitters and get a visual sense of what pollution is coming from where. I believe tools like this will be crucial to spark entrepreneurial solutions to address climate change. 
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