Solving the Carbon Dioxide Emission Estimation Problem: An Artificial Neural Network Model

Abdel Karim Baareh

Computer Science Department, Ajloun College, Al-Balqa Applied University, Ajloun, Jordan.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2013.67042                

Abstract

Climate Pollution due to the Carbon Emission (CO₂) from the different fossil fuels is considered as a great and important international challenge to many researchers. In this paper we are providing a solution to forecast the poison CO₂ gas emerged from energy consumption. Four inputs data were considered the global oil, natural gas, coal, and primary energy consumption to build our system. In this paper, we used the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as successful and powerful tool in handling a time series modeling problem. The proposed ANN model was used to train and test the yearly CO₂ Emission. The data were trained from year 1982 to 2000, and tested for the year 2003 to 2010. From the results obtained we can see that ANN performance was Excellent and proved its efficiency as a useful tool in solving the climate pollution problems.

Keywords

Fossil Fuels; Carbon Emission; Forecasting; Artificial Neural Network; Back Propagation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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