Thankfully, this headline does not single out the United States as the worst carbon polluter, although we have certainly done more than our part to choke the world in a … [Read full article]
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National Climate Assessment Pulls No Punches About US Options
(All figures are from the 2014 National Climate Assessment draft.) Later today (Tuesday, May 6), at 8 a.m. EDT, the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee of experts meets … [Read full article]
UN Nails Forest Risks, Strategy In Warsaw With REDD+
At the late November meeting of UN climate delegates in Warsaw, negotiators from Canada–once a strong supporter of fast-start financing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries–and Australia, now … [Read full article]
How Clean Is Your Electricity? Ask The EPA
If you’ve ever wondered about the composition of the electricity delivered to your home (most of us have no clue), there’s one quick and easy way to find out. The … [Read full article]
US Coal Exports: "The Worst Of The Worst"
First, a historical parallel: The US tobacco industry, during the late 1990s, targeted children in underdeveloped parts of the world — South America, Asia, and the middle-East — with a … [Read full article]
NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory Sees 400ppm Carbon Dioxide Levels
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have been closely monitored for some time now. Just last month it was predicted that if we did not break through the 400 parts per million … [Read full article]
Cutting Emissions Of Certain Pollutants Could Slow Down Sea Level Rise
New research has shown that rising sea levels could be greatly slowed if certain fast cycling pollutants are cut from the numerous emissions being pumped into the atmosphere. According to … [Read full article]
Stanford Scientists Aim To Remove CO2 From Atmosphere
Turn the clock back a decade and we had all sorts of grand plans for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions levels, hoping that by 2020 we would be on the … [Read full article]
Managing Emissions Two-Degree Target Growing Ever More Difficult
With each year that passes us by the carbon dioxide emission reductions required to limit global warming to a 2°C increase are becoming more and more difficult to reach according … [Read full article]
Top Causes Of Global Warming Hit Record Highs
Like huge, ravening monsters, the top causes of global warming are ignoring man’s attempts to stop them and continue to hit record highs, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. … [Read full article]
Carbon Dioxide Makes Ice Weaker, MIT Researchers Find
A study conducted by researchers at MIT found that increased levels of carbon dioxide cause ice to weaken and make it more likely to split and fracture, regardless of the temperature. … [Read full article]
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Detects Dry Ice on Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided scientists with the clearest evidence to date of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars, revealing the only known example of carbon-dioxide snow falling anywhere in our solar system. Frozen carbon-dioxide … [Read full article]
Planet Earth Still Absorbing Half of our Greenhouse Gases
Planet Earth’s oceans, forests, and other assorted ecosystems are continuing to soak up approximately half the carbon dioxide we humans pump into the atmosphere every day, even as those emissions … [Read full article]