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.

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• Step on the gas to create a carbon-friendly future

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Theage.com.au | THE public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative fuels are good; fossil fuels are bad. If we burn less of the latter and use more of the former, the argument goes, we will be well on our way to a lower-carbon future. But shaping our energy future is more ...
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• Warming Sea Temperatures Drive Cod Away From Cape

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  roytsaplinjrs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Warming sea temperatures are driving Cape Cod’s namesake fish farther from Massachusetts shore as they seek colder waters farther out and deeper in the ocean, forcing fishermen to seek alternative catches.  Growing up just outside of Boston I enjoyed plenty of ...
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• Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  In a move that some observers say could provide a path forward on a future climate agreement that includes emissions cuts in developing countries, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country will aim to reduce emissions 14 to 19 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
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• Some Utilities Push Congress to Act on Carbon Emissions

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Online.wsj.com | Utility executives are stepping up calls for legislation to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, fearing that if Congress doesn’t act, the EPA will establish rules that would be costlier and less effective. The executives’ desire for prompt action is colliding with Washington’s ...
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• Brazil aims to reduce CO2 emissions by almost 40 per cent - EARTHtimes.org

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Sao Paulo - Brazil plans to lower its emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by nearly 40 per cent by 2020, the government said in Sao Paulo late Friday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff emphasised that…
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• Sen. David Vitter: Cap and Farce provision cancels carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  | Sourced From Washingtonexaminer.com | Much has been said about the potential negative impact of cap and trade legislation on our economy.  But both the House and Senate cap and trade bills contain an unnoticed provision that could have far more devastating effects on our economy than any of us had envisioned. ...
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• Peak Carbon Is History — The U.S. Has Entered a New Energy Era

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with ...
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• Will carbon dioxide give Miliband the slip?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  For once, Miliband the younger grabbed the headlines. Brother and cabinet colleague David had for weeks dominated the news pages over speculation that he would snaffl e the position of the European Union’s first foreign secretary. But last week it was the turn of Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary,…
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• Recession ‘cuts down’ carbon dioxide emissions (re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, November 15 (ANI): The rise of global greenhouse gas emissions has been held back by recession, according to researchers.Experts at the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) found that global emissions will be 9 per cent below the expected mark in 2012 due to the credit crunch.But the report from the ...
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• Another series of consultations on energy

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  The UK Government just has published (on 9 th November) a series of draft policy statements and will “consult” on them.  One of those statements is supposed include ideas which if enacted will speed up planning processes for nuclear energy; another will similarly deal with large scale renewable energy such as ...
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• Why Did the AP Fact Checker Cross the Street.

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  So why did the Associated Press Fact Checker cross the wtreet?   Answer, we don’t know.   No AP Fact Checker is smart enough to find a stree, much less cross it, from a purported AP Fact Check of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rouge : PALIN: Says Obama has admitted that the climate change policy he seeks will ...
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• WRAPUP 1-Global energy use to rise fast if no CO2 deal-IEA

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 543
  * IEA calls for U.N. climate change deal in Copenhagen * No deal could mean doubling of oil and gas bills by 2030 * Global energy demand to rise 1.5 pct/yr to 2030 if no deal * World oil use seen at 105 mln bpd 2030 (prev 106) (Updates throughout with detail, comments, reaction) PARIS/LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – ...
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• Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 734
  From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release . Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for our planet. (h/t to Hu McCullough) Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store Issue date: 09 Nov ...
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• A plan to measure carbon emissions that even a dummy could run

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Green As the leaders of the world prepare for the critical Copenhagen climate and environment summit in December, Michael Woelk has a message hed like them to hear. You cant fix what you cant measure. And it wont cost that much to measure carbon emissions down to the factory ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Britain’s renewable energy targets are ‘physically impossible’, says study

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  The Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ ‘battle plan’ for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear powerIt will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long term, according to a group of engineering experts.In a new study, they called for the ...
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• Brazil aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 40 percent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Sao Paulo, Nov 14 (DPA) Brazil plans to lower its emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by nearly 40 percent by 2020, a government official said here.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff emphasised late Friday that the ambitious goal was voluntary. Brazil intends to ...
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• NBC Kicks Off Annual ‘Green Week’ with Primetime Climate Hype

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Three years ago, NBC launched a holiday tradition of environmental awareness. In 2007, it kicked off its "Green Week" by turning off the lights during a Sunday sports broadcast (as if turning off studio lights for one minute could mitigate three hours of blazing stadium lights). The rest of the week…
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• CO2 Emissions are not Changing the Ratio of Airborne CO2 to that taken up by the Oceans and Plants

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  The University of Bristol in the UK has published a study based not on climate modeling, but on statistical analysis of data including historical data from Antarctic ice cores. The study shows that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed ...
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• Geo-Engineering the Earth: Mad Science for a Mad Planet (scary because it can be done)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  Geologists prefer to call the past two centuries as ‘the anthropocene period, a time when humans have reshaped about half of the Earth’s surface. We have dictated what plants grow and where. We’ve pocked and deformed the Earth’s crust with mines and wells, and we’ve commandeered a huge fraction of its ...
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