A carbon footprint calculator asks questions about your lifestyle and consumption habits and calculates how much carbon dioxide you produce annually.
Why bother knowing your carbon footprint?
Good question. The answer is if you really want to reduce global warming, start at home. Know how many tons of greenhouse gases you are personally dumping into the atmosphere. Then choose how you want to cancel those effects (to be covered in later articles).
Here's a few calculators I found on the net.
1. Carbonfootprint.com Calculator
2. WRI Calculator
3. An Inconvenient Truth Calculator
4. Junkscience Calculator
5. BP Calculator
6. Carboncalculator.co.uk
My only issue with carbon calculators is that many were written for western audiences and tend to categorize usage around American or European peculiarities. Some calculators for example only work if you provide a valid US zip code or they ask you to choose car models only found in that country.
We're seeing the same harebrainedness found during the baseball world series where the 'world' is defined as Florida, New York, California, etc.
Anyway given the seriousness of the situation, I hope someone will come up with a calculator that's more applicable to Asian audiences soon.
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