Tag: carbon dioxide
member name: Sam Carana
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June 15, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
The quickest and most effective way to deal with global warming is to tax greenhouse gas emissions and to spend the proceeds to encourage the use of renewable energy locally.
Tax puts a price on pollution . . .
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November 28, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
Venus was transformed from a haven for water to a fiery hell by an runaway greenhouse effect, concludes the European Space Agency (ESA), after studying data from the Venus Express, which has been orbiting . . .
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March 03, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Damon Matthews , from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira , from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA, used a global climate model to study the impact of reductions of greenhouse . . .
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February 14, 2008 03:06 AM EST --
Shipping emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) are underestimated by as much as three times, according to the British daily Guardian, which quotes a new study that shows that annual emissions from the . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:38 AM EDT --
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA's top climate scientist says.
"The problem . . .
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March 18, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
Virtually all countries have ratified the Kyoto protocol. Yet, carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions are rising even faster than the worst-case estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . . .
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April 16, 2008 06:20 AM EDT --
After publication of Ten Dangers of Global Warming , now more than a year ago, some said that the article was 'alarmist' and had 'dramatized' the impact of global warming. After the Intergovernmental . . .
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December 19, 2009 04:32 PM EST --
CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Fifteenth session Copenhagen, 18 December 2009 Agenda item 9 High-level segment
FCCC/CP/2009/L7 Draft decision -/CP.15 Proposal by the President . . .
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December 07, 2009 09:40 PM EST --
On December 7, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Greenhouse Gases (GHG) constitute a threat to public health and to the environment .
The finding enables the EPA to set . . .
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December 08, 2009 07:20 AM EST --
On December 7, 2009, 56 newspapers in 45 countries took the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial . This because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless . . .
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April 04, 2008 08:30 PM EDT --
Boeing announced that it has successfully conducted test flights of a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A two-seater Dimona plane with a 16.3 meter (53.5 foot) wingspan and a conventional . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
Combat Global Warming with Evaporative Cooling - by Sam Carana
To combat global warming, wind turbines along the coastline could be used for the dual purposes of generating electricity at times . . .
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February 16, 2008 03:10 AM EST --
Last month, the European Union (EU) threatened to impose tariffs on products from countries such as the US and China, if those countries didn't comply with European plans to reduce greenhouse gas . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . .
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November 19, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
Extract: As we shift away from fossil fuel and as the number of wind turbines increases, more and more people are calling for a Supergrid - high capacity links carrying electricity between the major . . .
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March 10, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
Climate Congress, Copenhagen, 10-12 March, 2009
Open letter to Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, IPCC chair
Dear Dr Pachauri,
The Climate Congress presents an important opportunity to present all facets . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:33 AM EDT --
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute cinema-documentary about climate change, set in the future. It features an archivist living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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March 06, 2008 01:08 AM EST --
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) just released its latest report on climate change, called OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
The report projects that world gross . . .
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October 23, 2008 08:23 AM EDT --
Professor David Keith of the University of Calgary is working on a device that removes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) directly from ambient air.
Keith has built a tower, 4 feet wide and 20 feet tall, . . .
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