"Climate Trace was set up as a nongovernmental project to track greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The group began work on the new tool after Gore's experience working alongside people in Memphis, Tennessee, who were trying to block the construction of a crude oil pipeline that would run through their community and across their drinking water aquifer. As he dug into the issue, he saw how the plumes from a nearby refinery would drift over the neighborhoods."
"The result gives people access both to raw data on major polluters and visualizations of where PM2.5 pollution drifts near large cities. Eventually, the plume visualizations will be available worldwide, Gore said. People have intuitively known about the ill effects of soot for years, but it was only recently that Climate Trace and its partners at Carnegie Mellon University were able to wrangle global data on the issue into something that was both sensible and defensible."
Climate Trace launched an AI tool that tracks fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution from more than 660 million sources worldwide. Fine particulate matter from burning fossil fuels contributes to as many as 10 million deaths annually. The tool provides raw emissions data and visual plume visualizations showing where PM2.5 drifts near large cities. The initiative was motivated by local refinery and pipeline impacts observed in Memphis and other communities. Carnegie Mellon University partnered to aggregate and validate global data. AI enabled analysis at unprecedented scale, consolidating fragmented soot data into a defensible, usable global monitoring system.
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