Carbon dioxide

It has been said that Suburbia is where they cut down trees and name streets after them. As funny (and true) as this observation may be, mankind needs to start being more conscious about how we are treating the trees with which we share this precious real estate called Earth.

Of all the things we share, none is more important than Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Carbon Dioxide is used by plants during photosynthesis to make sugars and is also used to produce other organic compounds needed for plant growth and development. Carbon Dioxide is produced by humans (as we breathe). This symbiotic relationship has been a delicate symphony since life began on earth.

Too much Carbon Dioxide can be a bad thing. This colorless, odorless, greenhouse gas can be a killer. Human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation have caused the atmospheric concentration of Carbon Dioxide to increase by about 35% since the beginning of the Industrial Age. Many strategies have been implemented to try to decrease the levels of Carbon Dioxide that humans produce. Bio fuels, pellets, and bio ethanol are all gaining popularity as a safe, reliable means of cutting down on CO2 emissions.

Bloggers speaking about carbon dioxide can be found at sites like greeninc and mongabay.

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• Bulgaria Can Earn USD 1 B by Selling Carbon Emission Quota

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  Bulgaria can earn USD 1 B if it sells the already accumulated excess in its quota for carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto protocol. Continue reading at Thestar.com
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• In must-see AGU video, Richard Alley explains “The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Climate History”

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  I managed to catch the Bjerknes Lecture, which was given by Richard B. Alley : “The biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Climate History”. The room was absolutely packed – standing room only, I estimated at least 2,000 people in the audience. And it was easy to see why –…
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• We can afford a carbon cut, we just need the will

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  Huge numbers get tossed in discussions of the cost to curb climate change. Here are some recent ones: The International Energy Agency estimates $10 trillion (U.S.) would be required over 20 years to keep the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere below 450 parts per million – a target that’s widely accepted but ...
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• NASA Reveals CO2 Models

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 439
  NASA recently released seven years of daily climate data, providing some of the first accurate evidence on the effects of carbon dioxide on our atmosphere. The satellite provides the data via its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIR) instrument, which is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The AIRS has been ...
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• Online Shopping: How Green is It?

  
  Sustainablog — Authority: 489
  The Online Shopping Survey conducted by GfK in 2008 showed that about 70 % of people think shopping online is good for the environment as it helps to reduce the carbon footprint. But is it really that simple?Too many variables come in to play: when you live, how much you buy, who delivers the purchase., [...]
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• 60 Seconds to Save the Earth

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 548
  Sixty seconds doesn’t seem like a lot of time; however, there are lots of things that can be done in sixty seconds or less.  For instance, an average adult can type 38 to 40 words and blink between ten and 30 times every sixty seconds (sometimes simultaneously).  Furthermore, an elite distance runner can run about ...
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• Global Warming Problems

  
  I Am Not A Hamster — Authority: 119
  In this video Bob and I take a few minutes to point out some serious problems with the whole idea that human activity is causing any kind of climate change.Besides that, I am not a hamster, Im sitting here freezing and these people want me to believe that its getting warmer?!?!? Get real.What the [...]
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• Mexicans to produce algae biofuels on industrial scale

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 459
  Source: Algenol Biofuels Biofields, a Mexican clean energy firm, has licensed Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol© technology whereby it can turn an algae cell of a hybrid blue-green seaweed into a ‘tiny ethanol factory’. Biofield’s plant to produce algae biofuel will be sited at Puerto Libertad, in the state of ...
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• Tata Steel to cut CO2 emissions by 2012

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) Tata Steel will cut down its carbon dioxide emissions from the current level of two tonnes to 1.8 tonnes for every tonne of steel produced by 2012, a senior company official said Monday.“Our carbon dioxide emissions are already below the global industry average of 2.2 tonnes per tonne of ...
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• Why all is not (yet) lost from COP 15

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 118
  The nature of the climate change deal finally hammered out yesterday is a bitter disappointment to many, but if the world can acknowledge what went wrong at Copenhagen and learn from it, then we can still step back from the brink of disaster.The Antarctic peninsula is a vast finger of land that protrudes into the ...
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• Global warming likely to be amplified by slow changes to Earth systems

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by geologists. The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide was associated with a period ...
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• Global temperatures could rise more than expected

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 21 (ANI): A new study led by Yale University geologists has suggested that the kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought.The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise ...
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• China blocked green deal: Miliband – MSN UK News

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 146
  China blocked green deal: Miliband – MSN UK News Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has accused China of “hijacking” the Copenhagen summit and preventing a legally binding treaty desired by most of the world. Ed Miliband says China hijacked climate change deal Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband What is ...
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• A Christmas present from Copenhagen

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 128
  The leaders of the world have sent the peoples of the world a Christmas present all the way from Copenhagen. The leaders, their entourages and publicists and apologists set off to Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago, and told us that they would protect our planet from the thing we fear the most – climate change. We ...
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  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The Copenhagen farce is glad tidings for all After two weeks of increasingly ill-tempered negotiations, one of the European delegates at the Copenhagen summit “to save the planet” had clearly reached breaking point; or perhaps it was the ingratitude of the people he was trying to save that caused this ...
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  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The Copenhagen farce is glad tidings for all After two weeks of increasingly ill-tempered negotiations, one of the European delegates at the Copenhagen summit “to save the planet” had clearly reached breaking point; or perhaps it was the ingratitude of the people he was trying to save that caused this ...
  19 hours ago

• Global warming likely to be amplified by slow changes to Earth systems, geologists say

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by geologists. The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide was associated with a period ...
  21 hours ago

• Haida to sell forest preservation as carbon offset

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  B.C.’s Haida First Nation plans to make the most out of the fight against climate change by setting aside one quarter its forested land mass in the hope of attracting millions of dollars in the growing carbon trading market. Continue reading at Cbc.ca
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• Could ocean acidification deafen dolphins?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  As more and more carbon dioxide enters the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans are becoming more acidic . In fact, this acidification has been blamed for everything from killing off coral to aiding algae and even super-sizing fish ear bones . But the changing marine chemistry may also be altering the deep…
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• Solar plant to trade carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  Bhopal: Imagine a solar power plant reducing carbon dioxide emission by 98 per cent annually — sufficient to trade carbon credits in the country’s commodity exchanges. Continue reading at Mynews.in
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