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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• Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem [to stabilise CO2 emissions]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  University of Utah physicist Tim Garrett has published a study that approaches the economy and its relation to global warming as a physics problem — and comes to some controversial conclusions: that rising carbon dioxide emissions cannot be stabilized unless the worlds economy collapses or society builds the ...
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• Commonwealth leaders reach consensus on climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Paras RamoutarPort of Spain, Nov 29 (IANS) Ahead of the conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December, a team of leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here said that a consensus has been reached on the issue. The document titled, “The Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus: The ...
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• India aims for 20 gigawatts solar by 2022 — but is it set to announce emissions targets?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 170
  We’ve seen that the “ New U.S.-India Green Partnership improves prospects for global climate deal .”  But Treehugger has more on the world’s most populous democracy (and the photo is B Balaji via flickr). First,” It’s Finally Official – India’s National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• An Alarmist Modeler’s History of Climate Change … by Paul Driessen

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  An Alarmist Modeler’s History of Climate Change Climate changes and their causes through the ages, as explained by Gore and modelers By Paul Driessen ******************** Behind the persistent global warming scare is the hypothesis and assertion that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are causing ...
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• Peat fires drive temperatures up: Burning rainforests release huge amounts of greenhouse gases

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 170
  The forested peatlands of the tropics store vast amounts of carbon. Forest fires convert this into the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Scientists have now quantified these emissions and shown that peatland fires contribute significantly to global warming.
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  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 170
  Forecasting experts’ simple model leaves IPCC climate models cold A simple model was found to be produce forecasts that are over seven times more accurate than forecasts from the procedures used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This important finding, is reported in an ...
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• Every Time You Board A Plane You Kill A Polarbear

  
  Chilligan's Island — Authority: 139
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• Opinion: Environmental Journal: New report asserts R.I. CO2 emissions soared 24 percent

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 498
  | Sourced From Projo.com | A new report from a group called Environment Rhode Island asserts that Rhode Island’s carbon dioxide emissions have soared 24 percent between 1990 and 2007, which is going in the wrong direction for a state trying to reduce its impacts on climate change. But the state’s top ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Study on carbon dioxide emission of Indian airlines

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 498
  | Sourced From Indiaaviation.aero | The Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel informed the Lok Sabha today that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to commission a study to determine Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions by airline aircraft in India and set up an emission database with ...
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• Protecting the Forests, and Hoping for Payback

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Logs cut to thin the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon, an effort to promote sustainability.
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• Living A Low Carbon Life

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 498
  | Sourced From Carbonpositive.net | Purchase any book from environmental publishers Earthscan and get a copy of Chris Goodall’s IVCA Clarion Award-winning book How to Live A Low-Carbon Life thrown in completely free! And, go into the prize draw to win a Sony E-Reader. Climate science suggests that the Earth can ...
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• WaPo’s Robinson: ClimateGate Hurts G-Warming ‘Consensus’

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 170
  Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson Friday called the growing ClimateGate scandal a "major embarrassment for the scientists involved" that undermines the "consensus" concerning man’s role in global warming. Even more concerning to Robinson was that these scientists "seem to be trying to squelch ...
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• On climate emissions cuts, costs may vary

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Americans day-to-day lives wont change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say. read more
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• News Corp. Picks Hara for Carbon Accounting

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 498
  | Sourced From Greentechmedia.com | Hara, the carbon and energy accounting software that’s landed such clients as Coca-Cola and the cities of Palo Alto and San Jose, has gained another big client – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Hara will provide its Environmental and Energy Management platform to help the ...
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• Michael Mann updates the world on the latest climate science and responds to the illegally hacked emails

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 170
  Michael Mann , one of the country’s leading climatologists, has coauthored a major new review and analysis of climate science since the 2007 IPCC report.  Mann, Director of Pennsylvania State University’s Earth System Science Center, is much attacked by the anti-scientific disinformers because of his work on the ...
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• Westernfield Holdings Ramping Up Carbon Offset Funding

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 498
  | Sourced From PR.com | Tokyo, Japan, November 19, 2009 –(PR.com)– Westernfield Holdings Inc. is looking to ramp up funding for carbon offset projects in Asia that fall within the guidelines of the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and is jointly financing an $80 million Malaysian project. ...
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• How Much Carbon Can Organic Agriculture Sequester?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  Image credit: Soil Association I may not have been a huge fan of the promo video for its organic farm school , but the UKs Soil Association has been a tireless advocate for sustainable, planet friendly farming for years. And in looking at everything from the irony of air freighted organic produce to the idea of ...
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• Oceans absorbing less Carbon Dioxide : Study

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 444
  The oceans of the world are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale University geophysicist has found after analysis of data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change, according to the study, ...
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