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Breath of a Nation -- Animated CO2 Map

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Scientists have come up with a new way to precisely track daily and local patterns of carbon dioxide emissions} rom the burning of fossil fuels by power plants, factories, and vehicle traffic. The resulting database and maps provide a view of the “industrial metabolism” of our combustion-powered lives, Kevin Gurney, the leader in the project and an atmospheric scientist at Purdue, told me today.

Read More at http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/breath-of-a-nation-animated-co2-map/?ex=1208232000&en=253f1d7e87019e85&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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