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Los Angeles, Paris Participate in Megacities Carbon Project
Cities are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Los Angeles and Paris are both participating in the Megacities Carbon Project, a research study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop and test methods for more accurately measuring greenhouse gas emissions from cities and power plants.
The stated goal of the project is to “demonstrate a scientifically robust capability to measure multi-year emission trends of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO) attributed to individual megacities and selected major sectors.” The methods and data collected will be shared between international partners to enhance global emissions monitoring from megacities across the globe.
3 Comments on "Los Angeles, Paris Participate in Megacities Carbon Project"
BillT on Tue, 9th Jul 2013 3:11 pm
More millions spent to do a ‘study’ instead of subsidizing the destruction of carbon fuel use.
Must be nice to be paid to play with numbers all day on someone else’ dime. Just take past measurements and make a graph. If it doesn’t hocky-stick, check you numbers. Where’s my check?
GregT on Tue, 9th Jul 2013 4:17 pm
“More millions spent to do a ‘study’ instead of subsidizing the destruction of carbon fuel use.”
Not to mention the fact that the project itself is also adding more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
DC on Tue, 9th Jul 2013 4:48 pm
Remember that excellent article a few days ago about how ‘research’ into ‘efficiency’ is used as a sop to essentially do nothing?
See above…..
I mean honestly, hasn’t this ‘study’ or one like it been done already? Or several times even? What will ‘they’ learn from it at the end? That cars are killing us with there waste? That car-sprawl is inherently polluting? That heavy industry in cities pollute? What! We can already look up studies on who pollutes what and how much!
High-tech fiddling while Rome burns would be a better name for this ‘study’.