Two Views of Greenhouse Gases
Posted by
Clark Williams-Derry
08/11/2008 12:30 PM
The same data yields two very different pictures of what's important.
Behold: two very different ways of looking at U.S. climate-warming emissions, thanks to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (pdf presentation here). First, the geeky view, with emissions broken out by the specific activities and economic sectors that directly account for emissions:
In this view, electricity and transportation dominate -- suggesting that those are pretty good places to look for emissions reductions.
But here's another, somewhat more personal view -- one that fits our "carbon footprint" into the context of our daily lives.
