[Raptor235]

Businesses all over the world are jumping onto the eco-friendly bandwagon in light of all the recent global warming news, but those still relying on old, polluting technology have been put in the spotlight in a new database.

The Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, D.C. recently launched CARMA, the Carbon Monitoring for Action database. It sounds dry, but one of the best parts about this extensive source of emissions information is the way the CGD compiled it into an easy-to-use interactive website at www.carma.org.

CARMA contains lists of carbon emissions numbers for power plants and companies all over the world, so you can discover who's running the dirtiest facilities and doing the most global warming damage in your part of the globe. Plus, CARMA keeps tracks of which countries produce the most greenhouse gases, too.

This is not your typical dry website of scientific information and technical terms. You can search by country, state, province, county, metro area, city, company or plant, or zip code. You can even locate top C02 producers on a map, and you can view the map in regular or satellite format. Make sure you check out the blog below the map and search box for even more information about CARMA and greenhouse gas emissions.

So who’s polluting the worst? A quick search reveals the following:You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/climate-cha...orst-emissions

[Timetrvlr]

I think it's a great idea!

[Simon47]

I think it is great that there are a growing number of watch dogs to put a finger on the truth. It will still take a long time for most people to catch up and get a meaninglful understanding of the real issues that must be dealt with. I am not a fan of the idea that we will stop global warming. We can end our contribution to it and perhaps the natural cycle will return to it's natural pace. We can do everything possible to reduce all toxic emmission contributions but natural ones will persist. We can reduce intrusion onto and degradation of natural habitat but growing populations will persist. Et tu industry will grow and grow.

Science and technology, commerce and industrialism are likely to continue to increase our emissions for a fair number of decades if not; several 100's of years. It's not so much about how much we can reduce over the next 20, 40 or 100 years, and we do need to be aggressive but rather what is going to be our output over those periods. Most leaders today all vow to grow industry and expand economies and create markets. The smog forecast for June 14; 2096 doesn't look good and in a few decades it will come with a published mortality index. How do you reduce emissions in an Endless Growth Model. This possible future is one where everyone failed to consider that the simple factors that contribute to our success will also cause our inevitable decline; unless....What? Nuclear? Hydrogen? or every capacity that works. Unlock the secret vaults of hidden technology? We can't get disclosure on UFO's. Forget about industry-killing technology coming forward until industry gets it figured into their profit margins.

There is a plethora of debate raging on when; in reality, the debate was over a long time ago and distrction began and there are far more diligant proponents for a shift in human purpose than Al Gore and Why are we awarding this fellow a Nobel Prize for telling people A truth. Inconvenient or not, it is not a complete truth and a lot of theory. We don't know what may come and the same science that confirms the current threat also confirms other naural threats. I've known and understood the threats my whole life, since I was a child. The only change from my perspective is that it only ever gets worse, every decade, as civilization grows for the sake of commerce and profit. Perhaps it is only my perception since I chose to give significant attention to the issue my whole rural life and I became sensitive to listening to the warnings. I have not missed a warning in any decade since. I suppose I could say, with humility, that I am not hearing anything new except perhaps....no... thought I heard something knew but I was mistaken. This is not to say I am the great bearer of all knowledge or the wisest authority. It means I'm not hearing anything new and the solutions I am hearing constitute common sense long overdue and woefully insufficient. I am not hearing the truth.

I was once called a complainer. Never satisfied with progress or contrarian because I oppose the very fabric that our modern industrial society and civilization is built on. My response was simply; You do understand me! One has the right to ask why I complain. Simply; it is this. The debate will rage on and one small aspect of this is still neglected. For all that we do and try to do; the one fact we cannot escape is that we cannot escape; global warming or the planet. Never mind the fact that we will be able to put 8 people on Mars in 20 years and hope to reduce emissions by 20% in fifty years by some hopeful technological shift as a result. Do it in five and I'm still not going to be impressed and consider it a wholly unjustifiable expense. We have one planet and one last chance and I doubt that western and modern society is prepared or capable to take a step back from the status quo. You can modify it all you want and it's like cornstarch. It's still corn starch and now it's two products and two packages. Corn starch and modified corn starch.

The discussion barely come close to realizing the magnitude of changes this planet will and must undergo in decades to come. Perhaps it is a matter of self preservation in that people often consider their survival first as opposed to leaving a legacy for future generations and equally their attention is a preference to better living now and having it as good as it can get, now. Apart from instant gratification the excess we enjoy there are consequences to nature that will tax our supplies. Climate change is reportedly going to displace millions and realistically; time will displace billions. The longer the delays to human change go on they will only further deteriorate an already declining human condition. Some may argue that our condition is the natural condition of a species out of control and adversely affecting it's environment as a matter of natural tendancy in the pursuit of life. We may well suffer the throes of natural entropy and become forced to rebuild from a single colony as a matter of the natural course of our species.

However you define things or whatever the context you operate from; our reality is inevitably changing. We must adapt or be forced. The reality may be that we cannot keep nature at bay in the simple terms as we applied when we carved nations out of wilderness and went on to become technological in our adaptability. Can we rely on hope for a breakthrough or use the tools we do have. Our climate was cooperating with us and now it is not. Do you really think the will to change is sufficient to the need for it? Are people really prepared to make real material sacrifices? I have my doubts.

Sim

[travelforever]

I took a look at CARMA. Very interesting since the news media seems always to state certain countries as being as though they are the only ones guilty. I was surprised by some of the ones listed. I like the fact that you can change the mapping by continent or country or world. I will pass this site on to my friends.

Thanks.