Carbon Footprint

There is a new MODIS data based product called "Fire Mapper" which is an interactive fire mapper of the Earth. It uses both the AQUA and TERRA satellites to compile the data. The beta version is here. The interactive software, is open source and was developed by the University of Maryland under NASA grant.

FIRMS has developed a new, open source version of the Web Fire Mapper! The new Web Fire Mapper allows for the rapid display and querying of new and archived MODIS active fire data. In the future, you will be able to download the active fire data straight from Web Fire Mapper.

Please feel free to test the new version of Web Fire Mapper and contact us with questions, comments or feedback.

NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

Fire Mapper currently shows massive fires burring in Russia, see below, the Amazon, and in several south African countries. It is truly astounding how many forest fires and agricultural fires are burning around the globe at any one time. The CO2 output has got to be enormous. So the obvious question, where is this taken into account and why does no one want to talk about this? It would seem to me, that stopping the practice of agricultural fires would go a long way towards reducing CO2.

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The following described MODIS imagery, which has been 'hand tuned' for public viewing. An interesting point is that the 'new imagery' does not point out what fires are caused by nature, i.e. lightning and what fires are purpose set to burn off leftover crop residue and clear land. You know what PC is don't you, this is a perfect example, we sure don't want to officially point out who is destroying the planet right now, when we have this huge campaign to make America to pay lots of your money for nothing.

Who pays the carbon offsets for this? Is there a tax we should levy on wildfires and purpose set land clearing agricultural fires? Why not? They spew enough carbon and ash to cover whole countries. The lying and deception of regulating CO2 is clear to anyone who wants to see.



In this MODIS image smoke from intense fires in southeastern Russia poured over the Sea of Okhotsk on June 30, 2008. This image was captured on that same day by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite.

The fires, each marked with a red dot, are affecting Amur, Khabarovsk, and southern Sakha Provinces in Russia’s Far East. The Sea of Okhotsk is visible on the right side of the image. China is in the lower left.

Harry Reid, does this make you sick? The nonsense spewed by Democrat Marxists make me sick.