CO2 Monitoring Could Be “Space-Based” in Future

The measurement of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources could be on its way to entering the space age.

Using satellites to measure atmospheric concentrations of climate change-fueling carbon dioxide originating from coal-fired power plants could help verify other countries’ claims about their emissions of greenhouse gases, helping regulators in the U.S. and abroad to enforce current and future international greenhouse gas emissions regulations, a new Los Alamos National Laboratory study shows. The study also showed the extent to which the plants, soon to be subject to new EPA emissions rules, pollute the local atmospere.

CO2 Monitoring Could Be “Space-Based” in Future