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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Original Technorati articles tagged “carbon dioxide”

• in Politics
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  by chicksmore / on Jul 8, 2011
• in Green
  Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide from the Air
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  by yihyeewong / on Sep 10, 2010
• in Green
  Going Carbon Zero
  Offset your entire carbon footprint
  by yihyeewong / on Jun 4, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “carbon dioxide”

 

• Bacteria exploits hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity

  
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  Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon. read more        
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• Bacteria exploits hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity

  
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  Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon. read more
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• Bacteria Use Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide to Produce Electricity

  
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  For all of us interested in alternative energy from fuel cells, this report from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is worth following: Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole ...
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• Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research – Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached

  
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  By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent 19 May 2013 (The Guardian) – Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said ...
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• Engineered microbes grow in the dark

  
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  Scientists at the University of California, Davis have engineered a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to grow without the need for light. They report their findings today at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. “In this work, we used synthetic biology approaches to probe and ...
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• The Green Enemies of Humanity, Science and the Truth

  
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  Among the greatest liars on Earth today is the international organization called Friends of the Earth (FOE). It has engaged in the most scurrilous fear-mongering for decades, along with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the World Wildlife Fund, while all the time they pulled in billions in funding. In May 2012, the ...
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• This is life in a 400 ppm world

  
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  By Brian Merchant 16 May 2013 (Motherboard) – It already ranks as one of the grimmest measurements ever taken. Climate scientists found that for the first time in approximately three million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million. The reason that figure was ...
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• Dope growing is bad for the Environment

  
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  While the government moves to ban K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids there is some evidence too that dope growing is bad for the environment . Which is going to put a dampener on Metiria Turei’s assumptions that the far north maori weed growers are entreprenuerial heroes, when the reality is, it appears, that ...
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• The Last Time Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Were Around 400ppm: A Snapshot From Arctic Siberia

  
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  The last time carbon dioxide concentrations were around 400ppm: a snapshot from Arctic Siberia (via Skeptical Science ) Posted on 14 May 2013 by John Mason Synopsis During the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Series of the Cenozoic Era, 3.6 to 2.2 Ma (million years ago), the Arctic was much warmer than it is at ...
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• Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder

  
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  Given new evidence on carbon pollution, President Obama should get moving on global warming.        
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• A Milestone Reached

  
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  Well in the never ending "debate" about Climate Change in the US was largely ignored as we are busy here with some non-scandals, some real ones and our usual inertia when it comes to addressing global politics or issues of import and ironically in the week where a milestone has been reached - Carbon Dioxide emissions ...
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• Klaus Lackner’s Artificial Trees Soak Up CO2 Emissions Faster Than Plants

  
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  As news breaks that global carbon dioxide levels are at an all-time high , one scientist is developing “ artificial trees “ to help cleanse the air and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Columbia University’s Klaus Lackner has developed a carbon dioxide capturing material that acts as a powerful sponge – and ...
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• Scientists Comment on Global Climate Change

  
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  Climate Change Conversations (1) Commentary from Officials of the American Chemical Society , Science Magazine, April 5, 2013 Submitted by S. Thomas Bond, Professor of Chemistry (Retired), Lewis County, WV. “Climate change affects everyone, so everyone should understand why the climate is changing and what it ...
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• Study Attempts to Determine Global Temperature Restriction Needed to Save Coral Reefs

  
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  Shallow-water coral reefs are presently under very serious threat from the effects of global warming. This threat has been building since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. However, if bold action is not taken soon, these rich, productive ecosystems will almost certainly be all but erased from the Earth ...
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• Obama tweet gives Australia climate researcher 31 million reasons to celebrate – ‘Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous’

  
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  By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor 17 May 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Its the social media equivalent of hitting the jackpot: having your study tweeted by US President Barack Obama. Australian researcher John Cook, an expert in climate change communication, was inundated with requests for interviews by US ...
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• CO2 Capturing System to be Installed at Norwegian Cement Factory

  
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  A new and innovative CO2 capturing system is to be installed in Norway, at a Norcem cement producing plant in Brevik. Developed by Aker Solutions, the carbon capturing system is the first in the world to do this at a cement station. While most of today’s efforts only focus on capturing emissions resulted from ...
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• Fijis villagers move uphill to escape global warmings rising seas

  
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  Fijis picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now overtop a once-protective sea wall, their salt-polluted vegetation is dying. ...
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• How is atmospheric CO2 measured in the Southern Hemisphere?

  
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  Last week the greenhouse gas monitoring site at Mauna Loa in Hawaii recorded daily levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that approached the 400 parts per million molar (ppm) benchmark. Annual mean Southern Hemispheric levels of carbon dioxide, as recorded at the Cape Grim Air Baseline Air Pollution Monitoring ...
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• Why the 400ppm CO2 Milestone is so Important

  
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  Charles David Keeling began recording CO2 levels at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory in 1958, back when concentrations hovered at around 315 parts per million. Five decades later and that number has soared to 400ppm and his son told Yale Environment 360 we’re unlikely to stop it from rising any time soon. ...
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• Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!

  
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  The debate over what actions actually constitute “terrorism,” I believe, will become one of the defining ideological battles of our era. Terrorism is not a word often used by common people to describe aberrant behaviors or dastardly deeds; however, it  is  used by governments around the world to label and ...
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