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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/fungussa on 2023-11-13 07:28:13.
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The satellite launched by a Canadian company will be able to detect carbon emissions from sites like coal plants from space for the first time.
Vanguard will build on the growing network of satellites that are already spotting plumes of methane, an invisible greenhouse gas that is difficult to detect because it tends to leak from an array of small sources including pipelines, drill sites, and farms.
Carbon dioxide accounts for nearly 80 per cent of US greenhouse gas emissions from human activities and tends to enter the atmosphere from large industrial sources like power plants.
The data collected by Vanguard will help substantiate common practices of monitoring and measuring carbon dioxide emissions, according to Stephane Germain, CEO of Montreal-based GHGSat.
Satellites have already shown that methane emissions are broadly higher than estimated and Germain said he suspected the same is true of carbon dioxide.
The information will help bolster the accuracy of government emissions inventories and scientific modeling and will improve the quality of corporate greenhouse gas reporting for investors, GHGSat said.
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Lophostemon@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Pity the satellite cannot also send down some ‘rods from god’ to end the pollution.