How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

Google Tech Talks
December 16, 2008

ABSTRACT

The Vulcan Project has estimated US fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the scale of individual factories, powerplants, roadways and cities. It has placed the inventory on a common 10 km x10 km grid at the hourly timescale for the year 2002. In addition to improvement in space and time resolution, Vulcan is quantified at the level of fuel type, economic sub-sector, and county/state identification. Vulcan is now estimating other years and including Canada and Mexico in its spatial domain.

Two development paths are planned: performing this effort across the planet at scales of ~ 100 km2 and downscaling the Vulcan effort within the US domain to all emitting sources with full energy demand-driven modeling in near realtime (codename: Hestia)

Slides for this talk are available here:

http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/Google.pptx

Speaker: Dr Kevin Gurney
Dr Gurney is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and an Associate Director at Purdue Climate Change Research Center. He has participated in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change) and sits on the steering committee of the Global Carbon Project. He works on simulation of the global carbon cycle, deforestation, and climate change policy.

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[trixigt2]

@yazzz00 "oh I'll pick comic sans! It looks so joyful and professional, it's just perfect for my presentation at GOOGLE TECH TALKS" .... what were he thinking?

[yazzz00]

Why did he use comic sans, why?

[Elune137]

Incredible, how many global warming deniers are here,

wouldn't wonder if most of the same people deny evolution...

Fact is: We're pumping an incredible amount of carbon+ the other GHGs into the atmosphere; should we wonder that

- sea levels rise

- the arctica shrinks with incredible speed

- huge permafrost regions thaw up

- the pH of some marine regions reaches destructive levels to lifeforms?

But dear deniers, dream on...

[TheWakeupworld]

petroleum, coal and natural gas are fossil fuels..... so the best and really the only way to reduce our carbon emissions is to shut down all these oil refineries and and shut down all gas stations... and well you know that will never happen cause big oil and pharm and cigs control this contry and the world....

[TheWakeupworld]

CO2 is toxic in higher concentrations: 1% (10,000 ppm) will make some people feel drowsy.[5] Concentrations of 7% to 10% cause dizziness, headache, visual and hearing dysfunction, and unconsciousness within a few minutes to an hour.[6]

ok this is at 10,000 ppm. As of October 2010[update], carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is at a concentration of 388 ppm by volume. so relax people... this is all so stupid. co2 is GOOD AND NEEDED FOR ALL LIFE TO CONTINUE ON THIS PLANET...

[TheWakeupworld]

Concentrations of carbon dioxide fall during the northern spring and summer as plants consume the gas, and rise during the northern autumn and winter as plants go dormant, die and decay

[TheWakeupworld]

As part of the carbon cycle known as photosynthesis, plants, algae, and cyanobacteria absorb carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to produce carbohydrate energy for themselves and oxygen as a waste product. By contrast, during respiration they emit carbon dioxide, as do all other living things that depend either directly or indirectly on plants for food.

[TheWakeupworld]

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure and exists in Earth's atmosphere in this state, as a trace gas at a concentration of 0.039% by volume

[TheWakeupworld]

what a bunch of total bull.... the only way to reduce human carbon emmissions (which btw are not harmful) is to kill people...period... that is their plan to eliminate most of the worlds population...

[virgogreg]

this guy is from the IPCC UN pannel inothwe words an idiot hes a C02 fraud loon