One of my students flagged a recent Dot Earth post to me about an artist and physicist who creates graphics that depict our carbon output. Adam Nieman is the creative director of Carbon Visuals Ltd which “…exists to provide a range of carbon visualisation services to government, companies, NGOs and any organisation that has a ‘carbon story’ to tell.”
I am reminded of the mission of a book I reviewed last year, Climate Change: Picturing the Science, which is to help people connect to the reality of climate change. See also the Deutsche Bank greenhouse gas counter near Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Finally, I also remember helping a colleague out last fall in his carbon trading class when one of the students asked what a ton of carbon dioxide looked like. Neither my colleague, myself nor two other experts he’d asked along that day could answer the question adequately.
Well the good folks at Carbon Visuals can. (One US ton = 2,000 pounds = 907.18 kilograms.)