Quite the opposite of imposing regulations on livestock producers in the United States, Congress has actually explicitly forbidden the EPA from collecting greenhouse gas
emission data from livestock producers, making it the only major source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States that enjoys such an exemption.
Analysis of
emission data from global commercial aviation: 2004 and 2006.
Although we did not explicitly address the temporal or spatial resolution of
emission data from each system, it is notable that the few published acoustic and eddy covariance - based reservoir CH4 flux estimates are quite high compared to the median CH4 flux estimates from less temporally and / or spatially integrated measurement techniques (figure 1).
-- The term «Climate Registry» means the greenhouse gas emissions registry jointly established and managed by more than 40 States and Indian tribes in 2007 to collect high - quality greenhouse gas
emission data from facilities, corporations, and other organizations to support various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for the member States and Indian tribes.
This paper presents a review of existing literature on emission factors, emission data collection techniques, and analytic approaches; presents the results of SAIC's analysis of available CO2 and CH4 GHG
emission data from chassis dynamometer tests of heavy - duty vehicle exhaust; and provides suggestions for further reducing this uncertainty.
One line of evidence emerged earlier this year, with the publication of thermal
emission data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft in Science.
The team made their analysis using optical, infrared and hydrogen -
emission data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as archival ground - based data.
«I was surprised to see the toxic
emissions data from coal mines, the information about mine runoff, and the long - term emissions to soil and water from coal mines.»
The authors analyzed lobbying records from 2006 and 2009 and greenhouse gas
emissions data from 2004 and 2008.
The new
emissions data from the United States, culled from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are, by contrast, lower than expected.
The new study, which incorporates satellite data on fire with fossil fuel
emissions data from a 14 - year period between 1997 and 2010, marks one of the first times this shift has been tested with global data.
They compiled
emissions data from 2005 to 2015 to produce annual estimates for each of 91 presently emitting volcanoes worldwide.
The research focused on
emissions data from diesel -, LNG -, and CNG - fueled heavy - duty vehicles.
Using carbon dioxide
emissions data from 2006 and 1750 - for an estimate of preindustrial levels - Jacobson found that each extra degree of warming accounted for roughly 1,000 out of every 50,000 - 100,000 air pollution - related deaths.
The downscaled sectoral emissions for each country were mapped to a 0.5 ° grid using the base - year 2000 gridded
emissions data from Lamarque et al. (2010).
Input data for this step includes the country - level population projection used for the RCP4.5 scenario, a gridded base - year GDP data set from van Vuuren et al. (2007), who combined World Bank GDP information with the GPW gridded population data set (CIESIN & CIAT 2005), and year 2000 gridded
emissions data from Lamarque et al. (2010).
This concerns the collection of duly substantiated and verified
emissions data from installations that will only be covered by the EU ETS as from 2013, and the national lists of installations and the allocation to each one.
This can't all be due to CO2 since
the emissions data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) show that human - emitted CO2 wasn't rising anywhere near as fast then as during 1970 - 2000.
Anyway, I downloaded some historical
emissions data from the CDIAC site and played around with it.
The page includes links to the EPA's inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, which contains
emissions data from individual industrial facilities as well as the multiagency Climate Change Indicators report, which describes trends related to the causes and effects of climate change.
David, yes, having actual
emissions data from the electric utility you use would be the best.
Based on annual
emissions data from the year 2004, and on a per - capita consumption basis, the top - 5 emitting countries were found to be (in tCO2 per person, per year): Luxembourg (34.7), the US (22.0), Singapore (20.2), Australia (16.7), and Canada (16.6).
Let's run the numbers using CO2
emissions data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Thomson Reuters today released new research revealing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions data from 32 global energy companies, a key subset of the world's largest publically traded businesses.
Not exact matches
The 56 companies on our 2017 Change the World list, which includes six smaller rising stars, are tackling problems obvious and not - so - obvious —
from Accenture, which is using
data to reduce E.R. visits, to DSM, a Dutch life sciences company, that is fighting greenhouse gas
emissions from a notorious source: cow flatulence.
In 2012, forecasts for 2020 global
emissions were revised down
from 2008 forecasts for the same period, based on actual energy efficiencies realized between 2008 and 2012, along with updated
data.
It produces this estimate for
emissions from all upstream transportation and distribution primarily using
data collected
from its third - party logistics coordinators and EPA
emission factors; only 7 % of
emissions are
from «primary
data.»
ICT: Skymeter Corp. provides
data needed to migrate roads and parking
from taxpayer - subsidized to pay - per - use funding, cutting citywide
emissions by 15 per cent and traffic congestion by 30 per cent.
This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine
from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its
data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas
emissions in the wine sector.
Digging deeper: Methane
from microbial fermentation represents 30 % and manure management 26 % of total methane
emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 board
data.
More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of
data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken
from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha
emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.
The team analyzes patient - specific
data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron
emission tomography (PET), x-ray computed tomography (CT), biopsies and other factors, in order to develop their computational model.
Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique
from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global
emissions based on internationally accepted
data.»
«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the
emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and
data.»
The authors re-evaluated the
data used to calculate IPCC 2006 CH4
emission factors resulting
from enteric fermentation in dairy cows and other cattle, and manure management
from dairy cows, other cattle and swine.
For example, the new recommendations suggest that direct, indirect and cumulative greenhouse gas
emissions from a proposed project should be modeled if the tools and
data exist.
But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon
emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on
data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.
X-rays are absorbed by the atmosphere so I use
data from X-ray satellites located above our atmosphere — such as NuSTAR, Suzaku and Swift — to detect high energy X-ray
emission throughout the Universe.»
Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of
data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.
In 2008, they drew on
data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact,
from energy use and carbon
emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging
from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).
«This study suggests that methane
emissions may be a serious problem in Utah, but we need more
data to pinpoint exactly where
emissions are coming
from and to identify where the opportunities are to reduce them,» said Hamburg, calling this and other recent research on methane
emissions «alarm bells ringing in our ears.»
When the new
emissions data were combined with current pipeline mileage information, significant regional variations were observed, with the Eastern region of the United States accounting for more than a third of the total U.S.
emissions from pipeline leaks, and the larger western region, where systems tend to be newer, contributing 17 percent of total
emissions.
EPA inventory
data suggests that
emissions from local distribution systems are thought to make up approximately 20 percent of the total
from the entire natural gas supply chain.
Technicians
from Virgin Atlantic, Boeing, GE Aviation (maker of the engine) and fuel provider Imperium Renewables now plan to analyze
data collected during the flight to assess the engine's performance and pollution
emissions.
«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on
data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass
emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.
The researchers also used
data from global climate monitoring stations to calculate CO2
emissions from tropical lands over the same time period.
When the team combined OCO - 2
data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States with computer models of how
emissions plumes would disperse, its estimates of those plants»
emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.
For this purpose, image
data from positron
emission tomography (PET) and computer tomography (CT) were combined with protein and metabolic
data.
E.U. governments asked companies to provide their own, unverified historical
emissions data, and many inflated their numbers so as to claim more free allowances
from government.
Using statistical methods, they were able to draw conclusions about individual
emission sources
from the measurement
data.