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• Last time CO2 hit 400 ppm, temperature was 8C warmer, seas 40m higher than today

  
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  The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today.
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• Forest communities in Mexico , Brazil raise alarm about California’s carbon offset …

  
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  This week California wrapped up a public comment period for a controversial carbon offsets program. The plan, which is still being considered by the state’s Air Resources Board, would pave a way for industries to offset their carbon pollution by contracting with international sites in Mexico and Brazil. ...
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• A new world?: carbon dioxide concentrations in atmosphere hit 400 ppm

  
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  For the first time since homo sapiens evolved, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have struck 400 parts per million (ppm) due to burning fossil fuels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that readings of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii hit the symbolic ...
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• TerraPass Helps VivaTerra Green Up its Shipping

  
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  Online and catalog green lifestyle retailer VivaTerra will make its operations even greener by purchasing carbon offsets and renewable energy credits (RECs) from TerraPass, a leading provider of such products. Customers will be given the choice to purchase carbon offsets during check-out in order to mitigate the ...
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• Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone

  
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  The amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and sea level.        
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• Sustainable Companies Give Green for Going Green

  
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  Companies commonly base executive compensation on performance, but a growing number of businesses have started associating top leaders’ pay rates and bonuses to achieving corporate environmental goals. In essence, initiatives such as reducing energy use can lead to higher compensation for those in the corner ...
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• Keystone XL Pipeline Tradeoff Is Suggested

  
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  Should President Obama approve the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, some foes of the project say he ought to address climate policy at the same time.        
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• Energy and carbon: keeping the natural balance

  
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  Of all the countries on earth, France is the only one with the foresight, confidence, and discipline to have recognized and then immediately implemented the right energy strategy during the existential economic upset that resulted from the 1973 oil crisis . Like every other modern country, France realized instantly, ...
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• IHT Rendezvous: With Carbon Dioxide Approaching a New High, Scientists Sound the Alarm

  
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  This month atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are likely surpass 400 parts per million. Scientists say that while the number is arbitrary, it’s an important reminder that the climate is changing: When the carbon dioxide level changes, so do global temperatures.        
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• UK. Mirage introduces Yacht Carbon Offset

  
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  Mirage, the elegant 53m Feadship superyacht, now includes carbon offsetting as part of her stringent environmental procedures.  The awareness shown by her Owners reflects the high standards expected by her prominent charter clients. As Mirage embarks on a busy charter season, Yacht Carbon Offset matches the ...
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• Editorial: A Carbon Trading System Worth Saving

  
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  A sharp fall in the price of emissions in Europe has highlighted the need for reforms to an important program.        
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• Wasting water: Ontario’s Environmental Disconnect of the Day

  
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  Infra-red water faucets are now a fixture (pun intended) in many public washrooms. Everybody appears to have bought in to the conservation mantra: use as little as possible. Chief among the purveyors of the conservation ideology are the mainstream environmental organizations. These groups also push for renewable ...
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• Now, bacteria to produce diesel on demand

  
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  In a breakthrough, researchers claim to have discovered a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology developed by the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, still faces many significant commercialisation challenges, the diesel, produced by … Continue reading →
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• Dot Earth Blog: On Unburnable Carbon and the Specter of a Carbon Bubble

  
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  Can climate forecasts and campaigners convince the world’s nations that some carbon is unburnable?        
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• On ‘Unburnable Carbon’ and the Specter of a ‘Carbon Bubble’

  
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  Can climate forecasts and campaigners convince the worlds nations that some carbon is unburnable?
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• Sustainable transport finance: thinking nationally and locally

  
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  The Singapore Mass Rapid Transit system (MRT). By williamcho. The world, and Asia in particular, is heading in the wrong direction Asia is rapidly urbanizing, creating localized stress on the transport system. In 2011, for the first time in history, more Chinese lived in urban centers than rural areas and a ...
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• Milestone Nears on Curve Charting the Human Imprint on the Atmosphere

  
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  A famous curve of carbon dioxide levels is close to passing a milestone.
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• Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds

  
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  (via Climate Central ) From our friends at NASA comes this amazing 13-second animation that depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1950. You’ll note an acceleration of the temperature trend in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air ...
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• Energy Agreement Hidden by Climate Disputes

  
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  Self-described conservatives eschew efficient light bulbs when they come with green messages.
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• Solar Soirée in Ottawa: a nuclear-powered anti-nuclear exhortation to use more fossil fuel

  
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  A soirée is an evening event, meaning that most soirées held in non-polar latitudes take place at a time when solar photovoltaic devices are not experiencing very many photon interactions and hence are generating very little if any electricity. So if you are throwing a soirée and need electricity, it’s wise to ...
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