Philip Robert | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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    Philip Robert on 05/01/2015 at 10:05 AM
    Re: “Numbers Don't Lie
    Numbers don’t lie, but the people pushing them often do. It’s a simple exercise using Berkley’s interactive map to find a number of mountain towns that have worse pollution than Bend. For whatever reason the folks at Teton Gravity omitted many of these from their little list.

    Here’s a list showing towns with higher levels of CO2 than Bend:
    Colorado Springs, Co: 76.9
    Knoxville, Tn: 66.9
    Eagle, Co: 64.3
    Golden, Co: 62.3
    Beavercreek, Or: 62.3
    Loveland, Co: 57.7
    Butte, Mt: 57.4
    Missoula, Mt: 55.2
    Lyons, Co: 54.9
    Carson City, Nv: 54.3
    Reno, Nv: 53.9
    Avon, Co: 51.7
    Boulder, Co: 50.8
    Silverthorne, Co: 50
    Stowe, Vt: 48.3
    Estes Park, Co: 47.8
    Durango, Co: 47
    Frisco, Co: 46.6
    Bend, Or 46.2

    To give the list a bit of perspective Yellowstone National park comes in with 43.9 metric tons of CO2.

    Here's a link to Berkley's map: http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/maps