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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Carbon Dioxide”

• What Are the Consequences of Copenhagen?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  If you’re like some of us over here at TakePart, you can’t get enough coverage of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. We even cover a lot of the news ourselves here. And that’s why it’s so exciting that over at The Daily Climate (TDC), today they are starting a four-part special report ...
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• Climate catastrophe cancelled

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Voiceover (VO), reporter Martti Backman: Governments around the world are preparing for a grand climate conference, which should decide how humanity responds to the threat of a climate catastrophe. Negotiations are under way to replace the Kyoto treaty with a new treaty of Copenhagen. VO: The threat is based on…
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• Clouds hang over the global-warming alarmists by Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Article Tags: Newspaper Article President Obama’s headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore’s headed toward profits that could make him the world’s first “carbon billionaire.” But where’s global temperature headed? Nowhere, it seems. The most reliable readings of the Earth’s ...
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• If Cap and Trade Doesn’t Work, Obama will Make it Work

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 754
  All the talk in Washington is surrounding a government health insurance plan, but there’s a little discussed insurance plan in the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill that’s worth some attention. The Senate version of the cap and trade bill includes a section that grants the President the authority to “direct ...
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• EPA intervenes on video by two employees

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 124
  An interesting, and timely, sidelight exposed in this article from today’s Science section of the NY Times .
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• Rudd Deceives You Yet Again

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  By Andrew Bolt Professor Sinclair Davidson contrasts what Kevin Rudd says his huge emissions taxes will cost against what Treasury told him they’d cost: Another problem with the Prime Minister’s argument is jobs. Rudd says Treasury modelling also demonstrates that all major employment sectors grow ...
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• Follow Britain’s nuclear lead

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Here’s an Op Ed I had published in today’s Adelaide Advertiser newspaper. A supporting piece from the paper’s reporters is here . For more on the British plans for new nuclear power, see here and here . —————————————— WHETHER you are primarily concerned about climate change, ...
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• Australia’s Emissions Trading Legislation Political Football

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  With all the talk currently about the massive Health Care Bill, those other 2 Bills regarding the ‘perceived’ threat of Carbon Dioxide emissions may slide a little into the background. We need reminding that just because they are not at the forefront of the news, they are still important. Those two Bills, the ...
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• Climate Justice Fast (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The Climate Justice Fast began on November 6th as an international hunger strike to demand effective and justice action on climate change at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.  Participants will refrain from eating food and drink only water for extended intervals and in some cases until the summit this ...
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• Reducing carbon dioxide levels begins with citizens’ support

  
  The Temple News — Authority: 517
  While U.S. lawmakers have the final sign-off on environmental laws, the wellbeing of the environment rests in the people’s commitment to sustainability.
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• EPA sends CO2 endangerment finding to the White House

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 731
  Excerpts from Reuters story: EPA C02 endangerment finding to White House By Tom Doggett Image: National Park Service WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final proposal on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health and ...
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• The Importance of The Atmosphere to Protect Our Existence

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  The atmosphere that surrounds our planet Earth contains the right proportions of gases that are absolutely essential for life, one of those gases is oxygen, making up 21 percent of the air we breathe, without it humans and animals die within minutes. But too some of those gases, by themselves are deadly but because ...
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• Simply Green Today

  
  Blog On Smog — Authority: 127
  Australian researchers are studying the ability of cyanobacteria tofilter carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce soil.  Inancient times, cyanobacteria played a large role in converting theatmosphere from CO2 rich into one with more oxygen.  Readmore... How about an automated bike locker?  Invented in ...
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• Is global warming a hoax?

  
  Is It Getting Warmer? — Authority: 91
  Doug Craig over at Redding.com recently published an article covering the abbreviated history of research regarding greenhouse gases and the history of our scientific understanding of them. He naturally skipped those researchers and scientists that discuss the cooling affect of aerosols. Mr. Craig’s article is ...
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• Vancouver Olympics Committee to provide updated carbon forecast for 2010 Games

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Blog.seattlepi.com | November 2, 2009 6:07 p.m. Tomorrow morning, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) is announcing an updated forecast for carbon emissions at the sport events to be held in Vancouver BC in January and February. Will it be ...
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• EU launches online pollution tracker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Brussels, Nov 9 (DPA) European Union (EU) citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU’s executive Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants.The register “will give citizens direct access to information on (pollution) emissions from ...
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• Win a £15,000-plus eco makeover for your house!

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Exeter City Council has signed up to the national 10:10 Climate Campaign , which aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent by the year 2010, and in doing so, given itself the chance tto win £15,000 plus of eco home makeover. And you can, too! In fact, if anyone who signs up before Friday, November 13, ...
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• Obama “Bailing Out” Al Gore and Utilities

  
  Conservative Zone — Authority: 419
  Obama Rewards Companies Supporting Cap-and-Trade with Over $600,000,000 Million in Grants, Says Free Enterprise Project Washington D.C.: Today’s page one New York Times story on Al Gore profiting from global warming advocacy illustrates how taxpayer money is being used to reward businesses that support Obama’s ...
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• Peterborough Renewable Energy to build first zero-landfill energy farm

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  The UK government had approved the construction of the country’s first energy park that will process mixed waste and will convert it into renewable energy, including the segregation of metal, glass and plastics for recycling. The 80MW project, to be erected in Peterborough, will use waste to produce sufficient ...
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• Energy and Emissions Policy of the Conservative Party – the missing bits

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  If the Conservative Party form the next government of the United Kingdom what will be their specific environmental and climate change policies? So far the Conservatives have not published a cohesive strategy, neither have they provided details on their likely energy policy, and energy policy will be an essential part ...
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