Tag: Carbon Emissions - Page 5
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Canadian Government On Attack: Tar Sands Pipeline Debate Heats Up
The Canadian government is pushing Northern Gateway, the "plan B" to Keystone XL, and attacking the country's environmental groups in the process.
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Drive-by Technology Measures Exact CO2 Emissions with Infrared Sensors
Tech company Picarro has developed a method of accurately measuring carbon emissions on the urban scale.
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Cheaper Natural Gas Behind 2009 Drop In US Emissions
But with the greater emissions of shale gas over conventional sources of natural gas, will future shifts result in similar drops in emissions?
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The Rightwing Case for a Carbon Tax
A number of conservative think tanks and economists are supporting the notion of putting a price on carbon to reduce the deficit.
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Global Airlines Call For UN Intervention To Prevent Carbon Trade War
The growing carbon trade war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program really is indicative of the continued global denial about the environmental impact of our activities.
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Energy News Recap: 367 MW Offshore Wind Farm Opens in UK; Natural Gas Really Not Climate Friendly (Redux); More
Let's start with the good news today (the for-now-largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).
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Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact.
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Cheap Natural Gas Reshaping Power Generation and Home Heating: Coal Will Take The Loss
Combination of a warm winter & increased natural gas production is making natural gas the fuel of choice.
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2011 Was A Year of Weather Extremes, With More to Come
Even without fully incorporating such climate feedback, models show that continued reliance on fossil fuels could raise the global temperature by up to 7 degrees Celsius by the end of this century.
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Sea Cucumber Poo May be Key to Saving Coral Reefs
Tropical sea cucumber excrement could hold the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from the devastating effects of ocean acidification.
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Climate News Recap: Weaker Sun Won't Slow Warming; Plus, More on Leaking Siberian Methane
Catching our eye in climate news this morning are the effect of the sun on global warming, a primer on Siberian methane leaks, some new data on US greenhouse gas emissions, and commentary on proposals to move NOAA to the Dept of Interior (a bad idea).
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Increased Use of Natural Gas Will Make Climate Change Worse, Not Better, New Study Predicts
“The large GHG footprint of shale gas undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over coming decades, if the goal is to reduce global warming.”
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Climate News Recap: China Might Not Have Carbon Tax After All, Profound Changes in Rocky Mountains' Ecosystems, More
Beyond the headline teaser above, we're reading about Arctic methane emissions, Ryanair complying with the EU airline emission trading program & the efforts of Florida to build climate resilient communities.
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Climate News Recap: China Plans Carbon Tax; Global Warming Will Delay Next Ice Age, More...
Less than two weeks into 2012 and we've got some really interesting climate news we're watching, both in terms of the effects of climate change currently and far in the future (delaying the next Ice Age anyone?).
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Denier Politicians and Why Extreme Weather is the New Norm (Podcast)
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert on global warming science and Republican climate denial.
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EU Airline Emissions Trading Starts - Cost of Compliance Next To Nothing, But Airlines Freak Out
How much extra will travelers have to pay to offset their carbon pollution when their flight lands in the EU? If Delta's fare surcharge is indicative, pretty much nothing.
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Ask Pablo: Is It Really Better To Recycle Paper?
Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there's arguments against recycling paper in each case.
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California's Low Carbon Fuel Rule Rejected By Federal Judge As Unconstitutional
Wonder if states-rightists and environmentalists will find common cause with this one...
