Here’s How Industrial Emitters Can Pinpoint Their Carbon Footprint
by Tim Lougheed
Apr 24, 2016
4 minutes
Given how hazardous greenhouse gases (GHGs) are to our atmosphere and climate, it is perplexing to find hardly anyone talking about how those gases are measured. Even among those who do, you seldom spot anyone who mentions—amid the small fonts and tables, graphs, and charts—how data is collected in the field. Why? Because the tools we use to assess GHG levels are crude.
In some cases the measurements are straightforward: totting up the amount of carbon in fuel used by a factory and working out how much is converted into carbon dioxide when it is burned. But not all industrial sites
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