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• in Green
  Sizing Up the Beast – Can Climates Past Foretell Climes to Come?
  A new paper posits a slight shrinking in the climate's sensitivity to CO2; but it still has the climate dragon roaring
  by wyrdways / on Nov 29, 2011
• in Green
  Biodiesel Crops Ready To Take Off
  Michigan airports have started to grow their own.
  by apasolini / on Jun 29, 2011
• in Politics
  New Hampshire Legislature Steps Up to The Plate: They Repeal Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
  Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative goes the way of the dinosaur--and about time.
  by JerryWatson / on Mar 1, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “greenhouse gases”

 

• Save Gas and the Earth: Switch to a Motorcycle for a Greener Commute

  
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  Florida is a beautiful state, but an insidious threat lurks beneath our sunny skies: greenhouse gases. The biggest source of these gases is the combustion of fossil fuels, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Combustion from cars and other vehicles makes up a vast portion of this amount. ...
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• CO2 hits 400 ppm

  
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  On May 9 CO2 reached 400 ppm at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) monitoring centre at Muana Loa and at at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. This is what’s been happening over the last 130 years in broad terms: It seems many news organisations, ...
  1 week ago

• Shale gas: green groups condemn methane flaring plans for wells

  
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  The Guardian confirms that two leading fracking companies have plans to flare excess gas at sites in Lancashire and West Sussex . . . → Read More: Shale gas: green groups condemn methane flaring plans for wells Related Posts: Using shale gas over coal does not help climate, says big… Protesters attempt ...
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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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• The Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Reaches Another Dangerous Benchmark

  
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  The level of the most significant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, passed a long-feared benchmark this week, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for three millions of years, scientists reported Friday. Carbon dioxide gauges atop Mauna Loa, the volcano on the big island of Hawaii that has ...
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• The Stream, May 10: World’s CO2 Hits 400ppm Mark

  
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  The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world’s atmosphere reached a daily average of 400 parts per million (ppm) , according to measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the Guardian reported. The measurement is the highest recorded at the observatory, and scientists believe similar CO2 levels ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senators’ boycott blocks action to confirm EPA head

  
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  For the second time in as many days, Republicans in the Senate blocked committee action to confirm a nominee to President Obama’s second-term Cabinet, this time by boycotting a Thursday vote on his pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Read full article >>        
  2 weeks ago

• U. S. Shale Gas Exports: Friend or Foe?

  
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  GHG Impacts: Fossil Fuels U. S. Shale Gas Exports: Friend or Foe? Article by James Bradbury , World Resources Institute, May 8, 2013 U.S. natural gas production is booming. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production grew by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. Now—with production ...
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• The market recipe for cooking the planet

  
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  The economic logic of the capitalist system is obstructing the critical transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. Though nothing could be more urgent than curbing the amount of coal, oil, and gas which is burnt, the market demand for the solar photovoltaic (PV) goods is far lower than the ...
  2 weeks ago

• REVIEW: Climate Change — The Moral Choices

  
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  MIT Review: May-June 2013 Climate Change — Moral Choices From the Book Reviews By David Rotman , MIT Technology Review, Volume 116, No. 3, May/June 2013. One of the defining characteristics of climate change is poorly appreciated by most people: the higher temperatures and other effects induced by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas versus EPA, round one zillion

  
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  The desire to coddle polluters is strong in this one. Ship Channel circa 1973 A Texas-led coalition of energy-producing states has asked the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. The petition, which ...
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• EON Overtakes Arcelor as Biggest UN Carbon-Offset User in 2012

  
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  EON SE, Germany’s biggest power generator, used the most United Nations offsets to cover carbon- dioxide emissions last year, overtaking steelmaker ArcelorMittal (MT), data on the European Commission website show. Factories and power stations used 500 million offsets in the bloc’s cap-and-trade program, the data ...
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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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Industrialised nations cut their emissions

  
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  If you are fed up with bad news on climate change and how poorly we are acting on the largest threat to the survival of our civilization, please read further. To Reuters : ” Industrialised nations’ greenhouse gas emissions dipped 0.7 percent in 2011 “ A tiny 0.7 percent cut sure isn’t what we need, but ...
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• What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

  
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  The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading public health and ...
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• Energy Efficiency in MENA – A Tool to Reduce GHG Emissions

  
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  The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the largest oil-exporting region in the world. Around 85 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions come from energy production, electricity generation, industrial sector and domestic energy consumption. Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia figure among the world’s ...
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• The answer is blowing in the wind: The warming went into the deep end

  
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  There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on the last decade’s worth of temperature measurements, and a lengthy story in the Economist tries to argue that the climate sensitivity may be lower than previously estimated. I think its conclusion is somewhat misguided because it ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Need for a New Energy Paradigm

  
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  Nuclear Fusion Reactor A New Energy Paradigm: Renewables and/or Nuclear Fusion Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The argument for coal is that it’s “cheap.” The argument for gas is that it is “clean (maybe)”. The argument for oil is “that that’s where the money is.” All ...
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• China to phase out super greenhouse gas

  
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  Some eight billion tonnes of greenhouse gases could be kept out of the atmosphere if China sticks to a deal with the United Nations Montreal Protocol to eliminate the production of hydro-fluorocarbons (HCFCs). In return for phasing out HCFC production by 2030, the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on ...
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• Increased Fossil Fuels Use Can Worsen Global Economic Crisis

  
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  Tracking Carbon-Based Fuels Global Carbon Tracker Initiative Article from  TckTckTck , Non-Profit Organization, April 19, 2013 The world could be heading for another major economic shock as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to new ...
  4 weeks ago

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