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Global Air Pollution, From Above

Posted by timothy on from the but-poverty-is-noble dept.

neutron_p writes "Based on satellite observations, the high-resolution global atmospheric map of nitrogen dioxide pollution makes clear just how human activities impact air quality. I'm a bit surprised not to see that many red blobs above US and the strange one is on the east of Russia."

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  1. you are exactly right by JeffSh · · Score: -1, Redundant

    you are exactly right

    but, not to take away from any of your statements at all, there is a gigantic underground coal fire in china that emits enough CO2 in one year to equal and surpass all exhaust from all cars in the US.

    and that's just the coal fire burning coal, not counting all of the industrial development in china. it's no wonder things must be insane over there.

    here's the first site i could find with info, there are better:
    http://www.itc.nl/personal/coalfire/problem/china_ coalfire.html

  2. Depending on how you quantify that . . . by mosb1000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of course, that depends how you quantify resources. Do you use the dollar value of the resources, or the mass, or the volume? Perhaps some other index all together is in order. At any rate most of our food is domestically, and a good portion of that really isn't on the global market. Certainly our water consumption is not an issue since other countries could never use that.

    Really the only resource we use a lot of is oil, and boy do we use a lot of that.