Emissions

The Earth's atmosphere must feel somewhat like a fire hydrant staring at a pack of dogs. It seems we humans have made it a habit of polluting and dumping on the atmosphere for almost a century now. Whether it's chemicals, particles, or biological material, emissions have long been a threat to the Earth's ecosystem and to mankind's health.

Solid particles, liquid droplets, or gases can all pollute the air. Many harmful emissions are man-made, but some are natural, as well. For example, ash from a volcanic eruption would be considered a natural emission. Carbon monoxide gas from a car's exhaust would be considered a man-made emission. About 4% of the deaths in the United States can be attributed to air pollution.

There are several air pollution and emission control technologies and strategies in place to reduce air pollution. Land use planning (zoning and transport infrastructure), increased fuel efficiency (hybrid cars), conversion to cleaner fuels (bio ethanol, fuel pellets, and bio diesel), and electric vehicles are all methods that help reduce emissions. China, The United States, and Russia rank as the largest air polluters in the world, while Canada, South Korea, and Italy rank at the very bottom of the list.

Bloggers speaking about emissions can be found at sites like aimzeroemissions and mongabay.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Emissions”

• Britain’s nuclear strategy may cause destruction of Kalahari Desert

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 9 (ANI): Reports indicate that the hidden cost of Britain’s new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year.According to a report in the Observer, the desert, with its towering sand dunes and ...
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• Climate Change Will Harm U.S. Economy, Economists Say

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  Almost all 144 top economists surveyed for a New York University School of Law report agree that climate change threatens the United States economy and that carbon regulation — whether it’s a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system — will drive energy efficiency and innovation, reports the New York Times’ Green ...
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• Letter: Grass-Fed Beef Emissions

  
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• Club Car Announces Street Legal LSV

  
  ScooteringUSA — Authority: 130
  A zero-emission low speed vehicle (LSV) will begin shipping next week where buyers will even get some federal tax credits for the said vehicle. The LSV can carry up to 4 passengers and is another energy efficient vehicle which should be ideal for private and business use. It weighs less than 3,000 lbs. and has a top ...
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• Focus on the Building Design: September 17 Zero Emissions Charrette

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 428
  This is a report on the zero emissions building design charrette that took place on  September 17. HOK and The Weidt Group participants in San Francisco, Toronto, St. Louis, Berkeley, Calif., and Minneapolis saved carbon emissions from air travel by using Cisco  Telepresence Technology, Polyvision  THUNDER ...
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• Maldives says carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  MALE, Nov 2 (Reuters) – The Maldives could achieve its aim of becoming carbon neutral well before its 2020 target, the Indian Ocean island nation’s president said on Monday. Continue Reading on AlertNet
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• Is Rudd the worst kind of climate sceptic?

  
  GreensBlog — Authority: 416
  By Tim Hollo Kevin Rudds speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years. Coming only days after he had been singled out by African negotiators at the Barcelona pre-Copenhagen talks as one of the leaders whose action ...
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• Sainsburys to cut carbon emissions from fridges

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Supermarket chain announces plans to change freezer technology to avoid use of polluting F-gases Sainsburys, Britains third-biggest supermarket chain, will tomorrow announce plans to cut its carbon footprint by one-third by 2030, by changing its fridge technology. The retailer will stop using so-called F-gases, ...
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• Snouts in the Carbon Trough by Viv Forbes

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Article Tags: Viv Forbes Mr Rudd accuses opponents of his Ration-N-Tax Scheme of “bowing to vested interests” (The Australian, 6/11/09). That is the pot calling the kettle black. The biggest vested interest is the ALP itself, hoping to harvest Green preference votes from their green posturing. Supporting ...
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• This bulldozing of nimbys must not become colonial | Julian Glover

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  A new planning body that puts the national interest ahead of local concerns is welcome, but must be closely watched I became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike," wrote Richard Jeffries at the start of his entrancing but rarely read novel After London. He ...
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• Arctic ice reaches historic seasonal low; “We are almost out of multiyear sea ice in the northern hemisphere.”

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished…. “I would argue that, from a practical perspective, we almost have a seasonally ice-free Arctic now, because multiyear sea ice is the barrier to the use and development of the Arctic,” said Barber [Canadas Research Chair in Arctic System ...
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• Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 413
  The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton visiting scholar, and John Sheehan, of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, regarding the recent policy proposal in the pages of Science by Searchinger et al. to “fix” the carbon ...
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• Obama “Bailing Out” Al Gore and Utilities

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  For Release : Immediate Contact : David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 or e-mail dalmasi@nationalcenter.org to schedule an interview with Tom Borelli Obama “Bailing Out” Al Gore and Utilities Obama Rewards Companies Supporting Cap-and-Trade with Over $600,000,000 Million in Grants, Says Free Enterprise ...
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• The real story at the G20

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 669
  The press coverage of the G20 summit over the weekend was, understandably, dominated by the row over a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions. Understandable, I say, because it had a bit of everything: a punishment for nasty bankers, an embarrassment for Gordon Brown as what looks like a last-minute attempt to ...
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• Industry Eye: Drive to cut carbon emissions could bring stack of problems for British landowners

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Yorkshirepost.co.uk | The UK is now legally committed to bringing down carbon emissions to 34 per cent below their 1990 level by 2020 by using three five-year-long budget periods where the reductions can be monitored. Two weeks ago the Climate Change Committee, the official climate change watchdog, ...
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• We cannot fight climate with consumerism

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Small actions allow people to overlook the bigger ones and still claim they are being environmentally responsibleHow many times have you heard the argument that small green actions lead to bigger ones? I’ve heard it hundreds of times: habits that might scarcely register in their own right are still useful…
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• Carbon targets hit Alberta hard

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Calgarysun.com | Reaching Ottawa’s carbon emission targets could lead to a massive wealth transfer and constrain economic growth, especially in Alberta, says a study commissioned by two of Canada’s major environmental groups. If Ottawa adopts a carbon pricing policy and a reduces carbon ...
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• Real leadership on emission reductions is required now Mr Rudd.

  
  Peter Campbell's blog on the state of the planet — Authority: 106
  Kevin Rudd is a hypocrite and a political opportunist who is doing nothing to reduce Australias emissions with a fatally compromised CPRS (ETS). Instead he just plays politics by slamming "the opposition" and torpedoing Copenhagen negotiations for his fossil fuel Corporate mates (with his ridiculous 5% emission ...
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• Energy ABCs: Playing Americans For Fools

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 550
  By Alan Caruba I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy they largely take for granted. We flip a switch and the lights go on. We pull up to the gas pump and drive away. We use machines that are totally dependent on having enough ...
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• Exposure to air pollution increases infants’ bronchiolitis risk (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): Increased exposure to air pollution might put infants at an increased risk of developing bronchiolitis, reveals a new study.The researchers found that traffic-derived air pollutants as well as wood smoke and industrial emissions were associated with infant bronchiolitis.“There has been very ...
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