One reason is that Germany actually measures properly; or at least better than multiple other countries. The position, height, etc. of measurement devices can make a big difference.
Schneefalke1712 on
the mountains in the south block air flow from north to south. You see something similar in spain and a bit in France, Italy and Austria. Coupled with higher population density you get these results.
Grand_Stranger_3262 on
Because of an inversion, like u/Rhynocoris said, that traps the pollution of the cars and coal power, like u/Kartoffelcretin and u/Flaky-Score-1866 said.
Germany generates 8 tons of CO2 per person per year. Which is way better than the US or China, but is still more than double that of Sweden and almost double that of France.
I have never seen it look like that, usually it’s pretty on par with our neighbours and the red areas are outside of Germany. The ones that consistently do better are Scandinavia outside the major cities.
(I just saw your map says „US Air Quality Index“. Is it possible that that source is only getting data from Germany? No way in hell the rest of Europe is actually green)
Much_Recording1927 on
This map shows what exactly? Us air quality? Paris a clean air city? London Marsaile, Rome, Turin, all clean air cities? That’s the moment you should get sceptical.
If Greece would be included would it reach the 500 in Athens?
There is one with an imgur pic that is way to small but looks more accurate.
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Good question🤔
Because we have an inversion. Do people really have to ask that every damn time?
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Maybe because we are burning a quadrillion tons of coal in our power plants.
My map looks completely different. https://imgur.com/a/YvdAUVX
One reason is that Germany actually measures properly; or at least better than multiple other countries. The position, height, etc. of measurement devices can make a big difference.
the mountains in the south block air flow from north to south. You see something similar in spain and a bit in France, Italy and Austria. Coupled with higher population density you get these results.
Because of an inversion, like u/Rhynocoris said, that traps the pollution of the cars and coal power, like u/Kartoffelcretin and u/Flaky-Score-1866 said.
Germany generates 8 tons of CO2 per person per year. Which is way better than the US or China, but is still more than double that of Sweden and almost double that of France.
Where‘s your map from?
https://airindex.eea.europa.eu/AQI/index.html
I have never seen it look like that, usually it’s pretty on par with our neighbours and the red areas are outside of Germany. The ones that consistently do better are Scandinavia outside the major cities.
(I just saw your map says „US Air Quality Index“. Is it possible that that source is only getting data from Germany? No way in hell the rest of Europe is actually green)
This map shows what exactly? Us air quality? Paris a clean air city? London Marsaile, Rome, Turin, all clean air cities? That’s the moment you should get sceptical.
If Greece would be included would it reach the 500 in Athens?
There is one with an imgur pic that is way to small but looks more accurate.
Your data has the same value as a trump speech.