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>>This climate change flyover starts
with the county level colored representation
of the Vulcan projects 2002 fossil fuel carbon dioxide
emissions inventory built
by researchers at Purdue University.
Here we fly down to an individual power plant,
clicking on the facility icon to expose the magnitude
of annual CO2 emissions by this particular facility.
Next, we'll flyover to the West Coast
of the United States highlighting the icon
representation of the state levels total CO2
emission amounts.
We can click on the icon for California
and reveal the breakdown
of state emissions by economic sector.
This includes estimates for the residential, commercial,
industrial, on-road, non-road, aircraft
and electricity production sectors.
We can change this view
to highlight county level emissions information.
Here we select Los Angeles County showing the
emissions breakdown.
Note the dominance of on-road emissions
in this particular county.
Next we zoom into the San Diego Airport showing CO2 emissions
due to the landing takeoff cycle at this location.
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We now turn on the total colored representation
of the CO2 emissions at the county level,
in addition to the county level icons.
Note Los Angeles as having the darkest color.
This can be changed over to a per capita emission
as we begin a flyover up the western United States
across the Southwest and into the Gulf Coast.
Note counties with particularly high per capita emissions often
due to a combination of industrial
or electricity production emissions
and low relative population.
Icons dominated by red colors are due
to high per capita electricity production emissions.
Those dominated by black indicate a high per capita
industrial emissions.
Those dominated by yellow indicate commercial
sector dominance.
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Finally, we'll turn on the state level per capita colored
and icon representation and zoom
out to view the entire United States.
Thank you for watching this Vulcan fossil fuel CO2
emissions flyover.