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 ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
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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.
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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 ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
In the first week of September 2008, Arctic sea ice extent had not fallen below the record low observed in 2007, but the season set a new kind of record. For the first time in probably half a century—and definitely since satellite observations began about three decades ago— sea ice ...
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