New carbon-dioxide tracking developed

With concern growing about global warming, researchers said Wednesday they have developed a new system to track carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Being able to determine where and when this major greenhouse gas increases or decreases should help in projecting future climate change and evaluating efforts to reduce releases of carbon. “This is a pretty exciting opportunity,” said Richard Spinrad, head of research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Tans said the new system, called CarbonTracker, currently samples the air at 20 places in the United States and 60 worldwide, with a goal of expanding that to “hundreds, maybe thousands” of sampling points.

The plan is to be able to measure CO2 regionally to help determine where it is being released, where it is being absorbed

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