Japan’s Carbon Emissions Hit Record Highs Despite Kyoto Pledges

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Japan, the birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, has actually seen carbon emissions increases rose by nearly 9% above 1990 emissions levels, according to new data released yesterday. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan is committed to reducing its emissions by six percent from the benchmark year in the period between 2008 and ...

Putting U.S. Carbon Emissions in Perspective

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008



Notes on Global Warming

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Proposed Climate Change Legislation by Ultimate Reductions Targets Climate change is riddled with deep uncertainty about basic questions, which results from factors such as lack of information, disagreement about what is known or even knowable, linguistic imprecision, statistical variation, measurement error, approximation and subjective judgment on the structure of the climate ...

A Survey of Carbon Capture & Sequestration Technologies

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Carbon Capture & Sequestration technologies are considered a crucial component of any successful strategy to defeat climate change.  Currently, the technology remains too expensive to deploy for a variety of reason, many of which are not technical but regulatory and commercial in nature. Furthermore, the additional energy required by a ...

Chasing the Carbon Cycle: NASA’s First Map of Carbon in the Troposphere

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Map of Carbon Dioxide Flows in Mid-Troposphere The image shows large scale patterns of carbon dioxide concentrations that are transported around the Earth by the general circulation of the atmosphere. The distribution of carbon dioxide in the mid-troposphere is strongly influenced by major surface sources of carbon dioxide and by ...

China Surpasses U.S. As Climate-Change Culprit #1

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

NASA's Map of Carbon Emissions Dark Red = Highest Intensity The United States has lost its status as the world's leading source of carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement have increased 38% since 1992. But the global geography of carbon emissions has shifted dramatically since then, according ...

Fire Potential from Climate-Change Induced Global Warming

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008



Global Carbon Snapshot: Sinks and Sources

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

NASA created this map from a satellite image of the world's primary carbon sinks and emissions sources in 2003. High concentrations are shown in red and lower concentrations are shown in blue.

Clean Energy Leader Accused of Massive “Green Fraud”

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

One of the nation's leading clean-energy providers, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), is up to its ass in alligators for exploiting customers concerns about global warming for financial gain. The controversy centers on FPL's so-called Sunshine Energy Program, which FPL created in 2003 to allow customers to contribute $9.75 per ...