We woke up to a new President of the United States this morning.
Barack Obama promised, in his inaugural speech,
We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.
As we’re all (reformed) scientific researchers, that sounds fantastic to us. So, to celebrate, we’ve been busy importing data from the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve been starting with global warming and emissions data, taken from the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report:
Graph: U.S. CO2 Emissions and Sinks (Tg CO2 Eq.): Transportation and U.S. CO2 Emissions and Sinks (Tg CO2 Eq.): Electricity Generation
but we’ll be adding the rest of that, and data from other EPA reports, soon. So you’ve got something to compare it with, we’ve also added UK emissions data from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; if there’s any other environmental data you’d like to see on Timetric, let us know!
