I have to say, I'm pretty blown away by the amazing new Climate TRACE tool, launched over the weekend at #COP28 with Al Gore's team. Pretty sure I could spend a week or two straight diving into these datasets - it is truly incredible work and I have never seen anything like it. https://climatetrace.org/ We now have a top-down, independent and multi-source synthesised dataset of the major carbon bombs that exist across the world - my own interest is in the many coal, oil and gas projects along with the massive coal and gas-fired power stations. But this is significant for anyone who's been hunting for a different approach to the patchy voluntary data from companies. Some highlights from their findings: "Since 2015 the largest increases in global emissions have come from electricity production and other energy use in China, electricity production in India, and oil and gas production in the US" "In 2022, the continued post-COVID travel rebound caused aviation emissions to surge, with the total from international flights rising 74% between 2021 and 2022" "Road transportation emissions increased 3.5% in 2022. Despite the increasing availability of electric vehicles, high- and upper-middle income countries were responsible for 68% of that total increase in emissions" My screenshots below: - The fossil fuel extraction sites in Norway, along with our other emissions - Fossil fuel projects in Australia, plus power stations - The UAE's sources, and the 32 MTCO2-e field that dominates the list - Equinor's per-asset emissions! I suggest you go find your own country, filter for your 'favourite' sources of climate damage, and then click 'more details' on the bottom right to get a ranking from worst to less bad. Gavin McCormick WattTime.org
It’s bloody wonderful. I can imagine that in future you will be able to hover over any site in the world, including your own home, and see the annual or even monthly emissions. First thing any verifier of GHG inventories should do, is to use this tool - rather like checking on Google Earth, that a site actually exists. I once called out an inventory report because I could see on Google Earth, big trucks on their site that were not in the inventory - and they did own them. Climate TRACE is going to be invaluable - no where to hide.
Don't look up! Australia's endless list of planet-killing fossil fuel projects... still to come! https://reneweconomy.com.au/dont-look-up-australias-endless-list-of-planet-killing-projects/
Thank you, will deep dive into it. What gets measured, gets managed.
It is very cool. Cows responsible for 40 percent of global methane emissions. Not agriculture, just our love of beef and dairy.
Sorry, it may show where the emissions are. Al Gore was shown to lie when carbon credits were created. All it did was transfer wealth into the hands of the elite, with no benefits for the common people or nations. The earth's atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, O2 20.9%. Leaving 1.1% for all the other gases. CO2 makes up 0.3%. So tell me how 0.3% changes the heat in the atmosphere. Sounds like a load of BS being promoted by people who have agendas which don't benefit our nations. Let's thinks about renewable energies. Solar energy is great, I have it on my house . However, solar panels are not reusable, nor able to be refurbished. Millions of panels in the next decade will need replacing. What are we going to do with the old panels? No room in land fill Burn them? Oh that's right pollution. Stick them in a active volcano, problem solved. Wind farms,? Waste of land and resources. It is a good gig with the companies putting them up, making masses of money, pittance paid to the land owners.with no responsibility for the big companies when the break down. We really need to get away from the hype and look for truth without agendas to solve the apparent problems the world faces.
Having data that gives the big picture is key to developing strategies. A huge step forward. Next step is to interpret the data and identify how the data informs strategies and implementation plans, and determining which data points are benchmarks for measuring change. My favorite data quote, "if you torture the data long enough, it will confess." Roald Coates, economist. What we do with the data, how it is used, is even more important than the data itself.
This should be used by policy makers to find the big carbon emitters. Wow! It is very accurate. Just checked my region in Germany for the carbon bombs.
Bunch of bunk!
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11 个月Where is China on your maps ?? China is building 2 new coal based powerplants, EVERY WEEK…and will continue doing this the next 2 years. China says they need fast and cheap energy, and that they will provide these powerplants to 3 world countries as well. By the way…India are also ready to build a huge amount of cheap coal based power plants….