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by schnuri 1042 days ago
I‘d love to see a list of the largest emitters.
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You might be interested in Climate TRACE. They produce a global inventory, identifying the largest individual sources of emissions, and publish it CC-BY - https://climatetrace.org/downloads
The fact that they decided not to mention who the largest emitters are should clue you into who it is.
Ugh, don't tell me it's those goddamn humans again.
Southeast Asia? At least from the map someone else linked to, that seems to be a good part of the answer. Admittedly, I need to be smacked pretty hard with the clue bat because it isn't as apparent to me as it is to you.
It's sad we have reached a level of political correctness that means even American tax funded researchers are afraid to call out non-Western countries like China and India.
So it's China then?
I agree - it would be great if the data was public. I’m sure a large amount of this comes from natural gas flares.
The data is indeed public [0]. But beware, it’s huge to download; it’s also available in a hosted/queryable interface on Google Earth Engine [1].

[0] https://scihub.copernicus.eu/twiki/do/view/SciHubWebPortal/W...

[1] https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/...

Thank you!