United States official carbon footprint data video has been published in full color, showing hot spot areas of concern. It shows the detailed emissions of all 9 million square kilometers and plots down to 100 square meter areas.

The Vulcan project is a NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP) to quantify our fossil fuel CO2 emissions at space and time scales much finer than has been achieved in the past.

The detail and scope of the Vucan CO2 inventory makes it a valuable tool for policymakers, demographers and socail scientists.

This comes on the foot of Al Gore’s presentation evidencing the pace of climate change may be worse than what scientists have been recently predicting.

Evidence coming from the Vulcan project will back this call to challenge Americans to act with a sense of common urgency and ‘general mission… the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement.

He also called on the 3 presidential candidates to back up what they have been advocating on the campaign trail.

“(all) nominees have a very different and forward leaning position on the climate crisis… they’re saying the right things and should do the right thing when elected.”

He went on to say that every citizen should become an active participant in cimate change via personal action to activate legislative change on what he termed “the sclerosis in our civilization”.

For further reading go to Ted’s profile on Al Gore