Measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from a city, state, or country requires comprehensive tabulations of energy use, land-use changes, industrial emissions and many other factors. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has recently explored new methods for managing carbon emissions inventories.  Using NASA’s Terra satellite, the agency surveyed the “greenness” of California’s vegetation and...
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U.S. forests and soils currently contain the equivalent of 50 years of carbon dioxide (CO2), but have sufficient capacity to store significantly larger quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere as a means to mitigate climate change, according to the findings of the first phase of a groundbreaking national assessment by scientists at the U.S....
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President Obama’s Chief Science Geeks, John Holdren  and Jane Lubchenco, tried to alleviate concerns about the disclosure of more than 1,000 controversial e-mails and several thousand documents stored on the computers of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. “There is, and there will remain after the dust settles in this current controversy, a very strong...
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