From NY Times Green Blog about the power of visualizing data.
That is what California’s Air Resources Board is now offering. This week, state air regulators announced a new online tool that mashes their data on statewide greenhouse gas emissions from the 625 or so largest polluters with images from Google maps. Anyone with a Web browser and Google Earth can “see” how much carbon dioxide or methane or other types of greenhouse gases each facility is sending into the atmosphere.