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
  Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident may not Sabotage the World Energy Needs
  The world should not exit nuclear energy but draw lessons from Fukushima Daiich disaster and strengthen nuclear safety
  by chicksmore / on Jul 8, 2011
• in Green
  Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide from the Air
  Is carbon sequestration a feasible solution to counter global warming?
  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”

 

• This is how we ride

  
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  That’s “ride” as in riding bicycles. Yes, burn calories, not petroleum. See and smell the world as you cycle, not in just the occasional glance from the driver’s-side window. Read more.
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• CO2 Removal Catalyst Explained

  
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  There are several ways to remove CO2 from a stack gas. None have reached a commercial basis yet due to the expense of the processing. The current method of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flues of coal-fired power plants uses so much energy that no one bothers to use it. So says Roger Aines, ...
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• CO2 Tax Australia – Labor Government Is Right, And All Those Investors Are Wrong

  
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  By Andrew Bolt ~ Yet more evidence that Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard (pictured) and her useless carbon tax are hurting the country: THE boss of Myer, the nation’s largest department store, has added his name to a growing list of executives and businessmen warning that foreign investors are ...
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• Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record in 2011

  
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  The global levels of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion reached a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2011, only 1 Gt beneath the necessary levels required to keep global temperatures to a 2°C increase. The figures are part of the preliminary estimates provided by the International Energy ...
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• Bob Carter’s essay in FP: Policymakers have quietly given up trying to cut ­carbon dioxide emissions

  
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  Deal with climate reality as it unfolds Special to Financial Post  May 23, 2012 By Dr. Bob Carter Over the last 18 months, policymakers in Canada, the U.S. and Japan have quietly abandoned the illusory goal of preventing global warming by … Continue reading →
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• Spanish Housing Project Substantially Reduces Carbon Dioxide Emissions

  
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  A sustainable housing project developed by architects at ACTX in Salburúa, Spain, is a remarkable masterpiece of modern architecture. This eco-friendly project is said to have a substantial reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and was completed in 2011. It was designed to integrate 9 shops at the ground level while ...
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• Captured CO2 + Geothermal = Ultra-Clean Power

  
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  A South Dakota geothermal firm will use sequestered carbon dioxide instead of geothermal fluids to produce geothermal power. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling.
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• Shooting Nature in the Head

  
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  China to increase artificial precipitation by 5 percent in five years: Officials China to add more than 7,000 rocket launchers, at least 50 planes and 7,000 guns to its arsenal targeting the weather, China Daily reported. “Many of the nation’s natural and agricultural disasters, especially those involving grain ...
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• CO2 Tax Australia – Labor Government Must Face Facts: Its Tax Kills Jobs, Hits Wallets

  
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  By Andrew Bolt ~ A terrible economic decision is putting pressure on the Gillard Government to compensate with even worse ones: UNIONS will tomorrow demand a five-year federal government support package for the aluminium smelting industry to protect 15,000 jobs, in the face of the likely closure of the Kurri ...
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• Clean Energy Standard: Significant Costs, Insignificant Benefits

  
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  By Nicolas Loris ~ In its pitch for a federal clean energy standard (CES), The Washington Post’s editorial board asks , “Will America do anything significant to slow climate change?” Assuming America actually needs to do something to slow climate change, even if the Post’s editorial board got its ...
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• Photo gallery: The Canada oil sand mines refused us access, so we rented this plane to see what they were up to

  
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  By Robert Johnson 18 May 2012 When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — they dont. The open mining most people think of when they picture the oil sands is just one way of extracting crude from the ground, but it is ...
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• Door to 2 degree temperature limit is closing: IEA

  
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  By Nina Chestney and Oleg Vukmanovic; Editing by Keiron Henderson 16 May 2012 (Reuters) – The chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius this century is getting slimmer and slimmer, the head of the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday. "What I see now with existing ...
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• G8 Leaders Agree to Act on Climate, Air Pollution

  
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  At the Camp David meeting last week, G8 leaders agreed to act on climate change and air pollution by focusing on methane, black carbon (soot), and hydroflurocarbons (HFCs). This is the logical follow up of a move in the same direction by the United States, China and other countries back to February. However, ...
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• From Lemons to Lemonade: Using Carbon Dioxide to Make Carbon Nitride

  
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  A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy. Making carbon-based products from CO2 is nothing new, but carbon dioxide molecules are so stable ...
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• Baseline Measurements of Carbon in Arctic Ocean

  
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  Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have concluded a study to measure levels of carbon at various levels in the Arctic Ocean, providing a baseline for further understanding. The study was recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, and provides data that will help researchers in the ...
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• CO2 Tax Australia – Smelter Jobs To Go, Carbon Tax Blamed

  
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  By Andrew Bolt ~ No doubt Labor knows better than the employer how good its tax is for its business: MORE than 300 jobs are set to be lost as a Norwegian company plans to shut its aluminium smelter in the NSW Hunter Valley. Norsk Hydro will shut down its Kurri Kurri plant, as low metals prices and the strong ...
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• The Ecological Footprint of Nations

  
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  The ecological footprint is a measurement of the consumption and carbon-dioxide emissions of both individuals and countries. It is expressed by Global Footprint Network (GFN), an NGO, in terms of “global hectares”—the number of hectares of land and sea required to produce the quantities consumed and emitted. ...
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• Seagrass beds store 20 billion tons of carbon

  
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  Just below the oceans surface lies a carbon powerhouse: seagrass meadows. New research in Nature Geoscience estimates that the worlds seagrass meadows conservatively store 19.9 billion metric tons of carbon, even though the threatened marine ecosystems make up only 0.2 percent of Earths surface. The findings lend ...
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• Group of 8 affirms climate change efforts

  
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  Wow. This will finally, finally end the madness of burning fossil fuels forever and ever. Wanna bet? Sure, sure you say. And you are likely on the mark. The Group of 8 certainly got some positive PR-type news coverage, but that’s about it. You can read about it all here and get a look at the Group of 8 leaders ...
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• Methane Sources Found Bubbling Up from Melting Ice Caps

  
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  U.S. scientists report that they have discovered new sources of methane percolating up from underground reservoirs as glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost melt in the Arctic. University of Alaska researchers, conducting aerial and ground surveys, said they have discovered 150,000 methane seeps in Alaska alone ...
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