Tag: greenhouse effect
member name: Sam Carana
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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 08, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
What are the basics of Global Warming, specifically the impact of extra heat? What is extra heat? What is its impact on global warming? Feel free to make comments if you see things differently! . . .
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December 20, 2008 06:54 AM EST --
When it's hot, should you turn on the car's air-conditioner?
As many will have experienced, driving with the air-conditioner on can increase fuel consumption by 10% or more. Yet, especially . . .
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March 07, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Let's have a look at the many concerns and dangers associated with global warming and the resulting changes in climate around the world. I've tentatively grouped them into ten points.
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January 22, 2009 05:52 AM EST --
While the weather has been cold in some places over the past few months, the year 2008 was among the ten warmest years in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1880. The . . .
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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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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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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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February 23, 2009 02:09 AM EST --
On Monday, March 2, 2009, people from all walks of life and organizations from across the political spectrum will gather for Capitol Climate Action in DC.
People will gather at 1:00pm, at the Spirit . . .
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December 14, 2009 05:43 PM EST --
By James Hansen — December 2009 - originally published at giss.nasa.gov
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called Earth's "third pole", hold the largest ice mass outside the polar . . .
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December 15, 2009 05:32 AM EST --
A Plan for a Sustainable Future is the theme of the November 2009 issue of Scientific American. It contains A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables , by Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, . . .
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September 21, 2007 05:08 AM EDT --
The above image is from a NASA news release discussing that interactions with aerosols boost the global warming potential of gases such as methane . A study published in Science by a team led by . . .
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December 28, 2007 03:38 AM EST --
The best way to deal with global warming is a FeeBate policy. This works fast and effectively, is ideology- and budget-neutral and has the least risk of feeding a wasteful bureaucracy.
In essence, a . . .
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January 15, 2008 02:35 AM EST --
Electric vehicles can cut greenhouse gas emissions in two ways. They are clean and efficient. By acting as storage capacity, they can also make the electric grid more efficient.
Electric cars are . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST --
President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST --
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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September 26, 2009 05:18 AM EDT --
As I discussed in What will power your next car? , solar/PV energy represented a meager 0.081% of the energy produced in the US in 2007, barely more than the 0.066% it produced back in 2000. Renewables' . . .
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September 17, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Hydrogen fuel cells constitute an efficient way to store energy and as such they form an important component in our struggle to contain global warming. Hydrogen fuel cells are a convenient and clean . . .
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