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Global Warming
Content and discussion related to global warming-- the science behind it and views from all angles: environmental, cultural, political, economic.
Should we add one more gas to the Kyoto list?
Time to head back into my pillow fort:
Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) can be called the missing greenhouse gas: It is a synthetic chemical produced in industrial quantities; it is not included in the Kyoto basket of greenhouse gases or in national...
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by Ben Block and Christopher Flavin
On Thursday, politician-turned-activist Al Gore called for the United States to rely 100 percent on zero-carbon sources of electricity by 2018. Regardless of the logistical practicality of the goal or of the existence of political will to achieve this...
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L. Ron Bolt bashes his pulpit, berating anyone who prints politically on climate change:
Global warming believer Tim Colebatch in The Age today tries to bat away an inconvenient truth - that the world hasn’t actually warmed for a decade. But more fervent than informed, he simply proves he...
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The World Resources Institute has a geekalicious image (see page 15 of this pdf) that shows how human activities contribute to global warming. Click on the image below to get a legible, full-sized version.
The most interesting bit, to me, is the massive contribution of agriculture and...
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Hot on the heels of Australia's green election (Rudd signed the Kyoto Protocol as his first act of government), follows the second US climate change election. Bush tore up the Kyoto Protocol after the first one. Waste of good lead-time.
Obama and McCain have both stated that climate change...
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The split over climate change has previously exacerbated leadership tensions between Dr Nelson and Mr Turnbull. However, a new report which suggests cutting ...
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“We can’t link it with global warming,” said Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
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Yet in Silicon Valley, and throughout the innovation economy, companies are eager to devise ways to curb climate change, to reduce dependence on foreign oil ...
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Among the points in the e-mail: · "The Administrator believes that there is compelling and robust evidence that observed climate change can be attributed to ...
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... of much marine life and a source of household materials in Europe and Africa, face a mounting threat from global warming, a report said on Friday. ...
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Scientists keep telling me that when I drive my car, I have a huge carbon footprint from the green house gases ( C02) that are produced, but I raelly have no sense of how bad I really am. According to the US Department of Energy, one US gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of carbon dioxide.
"It seems impossible that a gallon of gasoline, which weighs about 6.3 pounds, could produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. However, most of the weight of the CO2 doesn't come from the...
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Carbon dioxide in concrete: This micrograph shows the crystal structure of concrete cured in the presence of carbon dioxide. A Canadian company says that its curing process can store 60 tons of carbon dioxide inside 1,000 tons of precast concrete products, such as concrete blocks, while saving energy...
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For thousands of years animal waste, and other organic matter left behind on the Arctic tundra, have been sealed off from the environment by permafrost. Now climate change is melting the permafrost and freeing mass quantities of prehistoric “ooze” from its state of suspended animation.
Russian scientist, Sergei Zimov, has been studying climate change in Russia's Arctic for 30 years now. He is worried that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will drastically accelerate...
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I have not yet replaced my Hitachi Magic Wand with a Monkey Rocker, but I have pulled all the electric bulbs, and put in energy saving fluorescents. I don't know how much this is saving me on the bill—but it seems like a responsible thing to do. That is why I am really getting tired of guys passing me at 90+ mph in their Bad Ass Ford F-350 pickups. While a Mitsubishi 3000GT is not generally considered Green, I am not intentionally trying to increase the amount of gas I use by 35...
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