It’s just an upgrade to existing satellites, we’ve had satellites watching emissions for a while now

Because that appears to actually be a coal fired power station? Yes I know the cooling towers are producing steam but there look to be at least two other towers which most likely are not.

Very interesting. Similar to what we see on Triton, Neptune’s planet. Although the key difference is that it isn’t water coming out of those geysers. Thanks for sharing.

Because most power plants have them and big as they are, they usually dominated the picture. The power plant in the picture is in fact a coal power plant in South Africa.

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>Russia, North Korea

North Korea is the most basket case country in the world Its emissions per capita are minimal.

Russia has seen its CO2 emissions collapse along with its post Soviet economy.

China has a whole host of issues that will be beyond the scope of this topic, but they will also be massively impacted by climate change. Way more than any western country not called Australia. (Though while Florida is not a country its another that is in for a very tough time)

Russia does collect significant money from carbon credits.

This would not be all that great for verification in the west where we can easily just sit outside a factory with actual instruments. Its design is more for wider biosphere monitoring as sinks and sources are a huge huge variable in climate predictions. In terms of gross national emissions we can kind of work out out for measuring "air masses" and existing monitoring facilities.

I am really not sure anyone is burning enough coal or making enough cement to be climate relevant and not being obvious to anyone who cares.

I am not really all that blow away by the tone of the article. The biosphere is where most of the big research from this will be done.

For one of the research papers I was doing for my class, I came across a journal article that suggested if Ganymede gets affected by planetary migration, with tidal heating from Jupiter and radiation from the Sun, the subsurface water on Ganymede would make its way to the surface through geysers and cryovolcanoes. Combined with the magnetosphere, an atmosphere could form, eventually starting a hydrological cycle similar to that on Earth and Titan.

I used to get upset about these emissions, but now I realize that China, Russia, North Korea and Co. will never disadvantage themselves by reducing them. Way too much poverty and constrained economies to ever expect them to act like western countries

I was just about to say, what a hideously disingenuous thumbnail picture. Thats fucking water steam and nothing more.

Because cooling towers look scary, great for my web article which is designed to be shared by people who don't read more than one sentence in!

The media seems to like using photos of cooling towers rather than smoke stacks on articles about emissions and pollution. I guess it’s more dramatic though it would be much easier to measure CO2 emissions if it was that obvious.

Why is there a photo of steam coming from a chimney?

Note you don't use this to leave Earth. This is for travelling in the vacuum of space and I don't even think it can be used to escape orbit either.

Small acceleration over large time scales means fasty-fasty.

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GHGSat is a Canadian company though it has an agreement with ESA to enable data sharing as part of the Third Party Mission Programme. Their first demonstration satellite could detect CO2 but the following five satellites were optimised for methane detection. Presumably this was because it is much easier to detect methane. A quick search doesn't reveal any technical details on the new GHGSat-C10 sensor. However, it is basically the same as the previous ones but it has been optimised for detection of carbon dioxide spectral features instead.

Its a newer version of existing ESA satellites.

https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/ghgsat

I am not sure this really conveys that this is simply an upgrade to an existing program.

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China, Russia and US&A about the get fined, alot!

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

Terrifying loneliness. Thank you for helping me best describe this.

They won't care how they got there.

Bender always wanted to drift forever. But through the American Southwest.

Which book?