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Greenhouse gas indicator
The Climate Group organisation is releasing statistics for Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions on a WEEKLY basis.
Desicription of the service:
http://www.theclimategroup.org/index.php?pid=876
The Weekly Indicator:
http://www.theclimategroup.org/indicator/
The Age article 08.01.07
LINK
Doing some quick calcs, Victoria released 1,919,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere last week - a bit higher than normal due to the heatwave causing everyone to reach for the airconditioner switch.. There are 5,080,000 people living in Victoria, so on average they were responsible for 377 kg of emission gases last week.
It would be interesting to get a better idea of how this is broken down - particularly the split between industrial and domestic emissions.
UPDATE:
I have had a look around, there are two emissions calculators on government websites. This one is a bit tricky, requires you to use a spreadsheet:
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/challenge/members/emissions.html
This one is a bit simpler:
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/gwci/calculator.html
Each require a fair amount of work to figure out what your emissions are. The spreadsheet is disturbing for Victorians who are connected to electricity only. 1 Gigawatthours worth of sooty Victorian electricity contributes 14.7 tonnes of CO2 to the biosphere. Compare this with the other states that aren't burning brown coal like there's no tomorrow.
Victoria: 14.7 T
ACT: 9.9 T
NSW: 9.9 T
NT: 8.1T
QLD: 11.6 T
SA: 10.1 T
TAS: 0.3 T
WA: 9.9 T
Desicription of the service:
http://www.theclimategroup.org/index.php?pid=876
The Weekly Indicator:
http://www.theclimategroup.org/indicator/
The Age article 08.01.07
LINK
Doing some quick calcs, Victoria released 1,919,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere last week - a bit higher than normal due to the heatwave causing everyone to reach for the airconditioner switch.. There are 5,080,000 people living in Victoria, so on average they were responsible for 377 kg of emission gases last week.
It would be interesting to get a better idea of how this is broken down - particularly the split between industrial and domestic emissions.
UPDATE:
I have had a look around, there are two emissions calculators on government websites. This one is a bit tricky, requires you to use a spreadsheet:
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/challenge/members/emissions.html
This one is a bit simpler:
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/gwci/calculator.html
Each require a fair amount of work to figure out what your emissions are. The spreadsheet is disturbing for Victorians who are connected to electricity only. 1 Gigawatthours worth of sooty Victorian electricity contributes 14.7 tonnes of CO2 to the biosphere. Compare this with the other states that aren't burning brown coal like there's no tomorrow.
Victoria: 14.7 T
ACT: 9.9 T
NSW: 9.9 T
NT: 8.1T
QLD: 11.6 T
SA: 10.1 T
TAS: 0.3 T
WA: 9.9 T
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