New York (AP) – Soon people will be able to use satellite technology and artificial intelligence to monitor dangerous soot pollution in their neighborhoods – and where they come from – so that they do not differ from the monitoring of the approaching non -profit coalition led by former vice president Al Gor.
Gore that started Climate tracewho uses satellites to monitor the location of the heat -capturing sources, has expanded its system in the middle to monitor the source and cloud of pollution from small particles, often referred to as soot, to the neighborhood for 2,500 cities around the world. The particle pollution kills millions of people around the world every year – and tens of thousands in the United States – according to scientific study and messages.
The Gore coalition uses 300 satellites, 30,000 soil tracking sensors and artificial intelligence to track 137,095 particle pollution sources, with 3,937 categorized as “super emitters” how much they spew. Users can look at long -term trends, but in about a year Gore hopes that they can be available daily so that they can be integrated into weather applications such as allergy messages.
It’s not just to see pollutants. The Site It shows who spews them.
“It’s hard, before AI, so that people really see exactly where this conventional air pollution comes,” Gore said. “When they end up in their homes and their neighborhoods, and when people have a very clear idea of it, then I think they are empowered the truth of their situations. My tradition of faith has always taught me that you will know the truth and the truth will free you.”
Unlike methane, soot pollution is not technically a climate problem, because it does not cause the world to warm up, but comes from the same process: combustion of fossil fuels.
“It is the same combustion process of the same fuels that produce both greenhouse gases and particle pollution that kills almost 9 million people every year,” Gore told Monday in a video interview. “Let me give you an example.” I recently spent a week in Cancer Alley, a section between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the American petrochemical industry is founded. This is 65 kilometers (105 kilometers) section, you know, and on both sides of the river we have analyzed with climate data. If Cancer Alley were a nation, its emissions on global warming per capita would be fourth behind Turkmenistan. ”
Gore’s company found that Karachi, Pakistan had the most people exposed to the soot, followed by Guangzhou, China, Seoul, South Korea, New York and Dhaka in Bangladesh.
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