Science
American Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints – WIRED
A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated.
Having each city build an individual SRI is like developing a national weather forecasting system by asking each county to characterize their local weather, then gathering up all those systems into one cohesive model. Well, that wouldn’t make any sense when you’re doing weather forecasting, says Gurney. In the same way, a greenhouse gas emissions system shouldn’t be every single entity doing this redundantly themselves.
Instead, Gurney argues that the Vulcan system can shoulder the burden of calculating…
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