Tag: emissions
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December 18, 2009 04:28 PM EST --
President Barack Obama's address to the morning plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, Friday December 18, 2009.
Good morning. It's . . .
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June 26, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
Global Warming - Tax or Standards?
As global warming becomes an increasingly urgent issue, there are many calls for action. Many call for standards to be set, to achieve a reduction in pollution. . . .
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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 09, 2008 07:03 AM EST --
On Friday, a US federal appeals court in Washington ruled that a policy by the Bush administration that exempted coal- and oil-fired power plants from regulations on emissions of mercury and other hazardous . . .
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December 18, 2009 05:38 AM EST --
The American Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Act was introduced in the House of Representatives on December 16, 2009, by Congressman José E. Serrano .
Bill H.R. 4399, or “e-Drive”, . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:12 AM EST --
As we all know, we should end the practices of burning forests and clearing land for farming, for urban expansion and for road construction. Big companies are often blamed for this, but what's often . . .
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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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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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August 01, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Two studies published in the July 31 issue of Science help open the door to the hydrogen economy by eliminating the need for platinum in electrolyzers and fuel cells.
Hydrogen can be produced . . .
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September 22, 2009 03:23 AM EDT --
Large-scale afforestation, in the form of bringing vegetation into the desert by means of desalinated water, is proposed by a team of scientists. A study by Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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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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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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April 29, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Why action needs to be taken
It has been known for decades that global warming is a problem. Over time, it has become increasingly clear that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to avoid catastrophe. . . .
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May 18, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Some people say that world population is "exploding" and that "overpopulation should be tackled", supposedly to deal with both food shortages and global warming. OK, the pope has a . . .
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