Tag: greenhouse gases
member name: Sam Carana
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October 21, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
Aviation, both civil and military, together with the space industry generates an enormous amount of greenhouse gases, due to the fossil fuels burned by the planes, the jets, the missiles and rockets that . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . .
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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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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . .
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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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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 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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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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November 25, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
As California recovers from wildfires , a study by researchers at University of California-Berkeley finds that global warming will have a broad and devastating impact on California's economy over . . .
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June 02, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
Earth 2100 will be broadcast by the ABC on June 2nd, 2009 from 9 to 11 pm Eastern time. Hosted by Bob Woodruff, it explores a future in which we don't take action on the problems we're facing.
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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 24, 2008 02:23 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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May 21, 2009 08:32 AM EDT --
Will America be a desert by 2100? Or Africa, India or China, for that matter?
Chances are, according to MIT projections , that global median surface temperature will rise by 9.4 o F (5.2 o C) by 2100, . . .
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