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CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources
One summer day a few years ago I was standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon expecting to look down and across at light and shadows melding with multicolored layers of bedrock, the whitewater from the Colorado River calmly glistening a mile below as it carves through rock and time itself... etc etc. Instead, I found my gaze drawn to a line of gray clouds blowing in from the west. They didn't look like rain clouds, and it wasn't long before I discovered it was smog carried on the wind all the way from Los Angeles. I did spend part of that day contemplating the vastness of nature and the power of time, but it was done through a haze of personal guilt. I had just come from a wedding in LA and was sightseeing my way back to Colorado. Part of that cloud was most certainly mine, just as the 3-D explosions of CO2 shown here engulfing most of the U.S. and beyond are collectively ours.
Published April 8, 2008 Permalink Citation
(2008, April 8). CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/co2-maps-zoom-greenhouse-gas-sources
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