Tag: emissions
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March 03, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Damon Matthews , from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira , from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA, used a global climate model to study the impact of reductions of greenhouse . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:12 AM EST --
As we all know, we should end the practices of burning forests and clearing land for farming, for urban expansion and for road construction. Big companies are often blamed for this, but what's often . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:38 AM EDT --
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA's top climate scientist says.
"The problem . . .
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August 01, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Two studies published in the July 31 issue of Science help open the door to the hydrogen economy by eliminating the need for platinum in electrolyzers and fuel cells.
Hydrogen can be produced . . .
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March 18, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
Virtually all countries have ratified the Kyoto protocol. Yet, carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions are rising even faster than the worst-case estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . . .
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April 16, 2008 06:20 AM EDT --
After publication of Ten Dangers of Global Warming , now more than a year ago, some said that the article was 'alarmist' and had 'dramatized' the impact of global warming. After the Intergovernmental . . .
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February 16, 2008 03:10 AM EST --
Last month, the European Union (EU) threatened to impose tariffs on products from countries such as the US and China, if those countries didn't comply with European plans to reduce greenhouse gas . . .
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May 18, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Some people say that world population is "exploding" and that "overpopulation should be tackled", supposedly to deal with both food shortages and global warming. OK, the pope has a . . .
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April 29, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Why action needs to be taken
It has been known for decades that global warming is a problem. Over time, it has become increasingly clear that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to avoid catastrophe. . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, according to a Reuters report on the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and . . .
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March 06, 2008 01:08 AM EST --
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) just released its latest report on climate change, called OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
The report projects that world gross . . .
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November 25, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
As California recovers from wildfires , a study by researchers at University of California-Berkeley finds that global warming will have a broad and devastating impact on California's economy over . . .
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January 04, 2009 05:10 AM EST --
In Beijing, measures have been introduced to phase out vehicles that cause heavy pollution, combined with financial incentives to facilitate the shift to cleaner vehicles.
Yellow-label vehicles will . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:33 AM EDT --
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute cinema-documentary about climate change, set in the future. It features an archivist living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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April 24, 2008 01:32 AM EDT --
In discussions about global warming, many are reluctant to make 'the first move'. The coal industry points at figures by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), showing that coal accounted . . .
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May 22, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
Rising Sun for Electric Cars
Originally published 04/22/08 (Earth Day)
by Roy Morrison in Policy Innovations
Earth Day 2008 is a time to ask: Is my sustainability work consonant . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST --
President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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January 28, 2009 02:26 AM EST --
In Greek mythology, Ceto was a sea goddess. Ceto was a daughter of Gaia and Pontus, and she personified the power of the sea.
In a current incarnation, CETO is the name of a wave power technology . . .
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