Check out this article from the Orlando Sentinel by Kevin Spear.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-global-warming-carbon-tower-20091209,0,1517805.story
An electronic connoisseur of carbon rose above a large patch of piney wilderness [in Osceola County] on Wednesday, sniffing for data that could play a part in any global response to the climate change being hotly debated by diplomats this week in Copehagen. The package of scientific instruments atop a portable, 50-foot-high tower includes devices that look like Men In Black alien zappers. What they do is measure the carbon dioxide inhaled and exhaled by the surrounding longleaf pines, palmettos and wire grass. The monitoring site, in a Nature Conservancy preserve in Osceola County, joins a worldwide network designed to learn exactly what happens to climate-changing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and, more specifically, to answer a critical question: What sort of ecosystems are best at trapping and storing this most worrisome of greenhouse gases?
Monday, December 14, 2009
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