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How Uncertain Are Estimates of CO 2 Emissions?
Author(s) -
Marland Gregg,
Hamal Khrystyna,
Jonas Matthias
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of industrial ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.377
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1530-9290
pISSN - 1088-1980
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2009.00108.x
Subject(s) - oak ridge national laboratory , ridge , library science , geography , archaeology , computer science , cartography , physics , nuclear physics
Can satellite or other remotely sensed data provide independent or even confirmation of existing for emissions from power plants, highways, projects, cities, countries, or groups of countries? The answer for now is no; estimates of emissions from fossil fuels are actually one of the best constrained pieces of data in analyzing the global carbon cycle