Category Archives: CO2EarthJustice
EPA urged to reject coal plant permit because of extreme air pollutants
October 4, 2007
San Francisco, CA — The federal Environmental Protection Agency must reject or greatly restrict the proposed Desert Rock power plant because its output of greenhouse gases will increase global warming and violate the Clean Air Act, a coalition of conservation groups and [...]
Source:
University of Southern California
Date:
October 2, 2007
More on:
Global Warming, Climate, Early Climate, Ice Ages, Environmental Issues, Oceanography
Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says
Science Daily — Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.
Lowell Stott, [...]
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Imagine a world without traffic congestion, where cars could drive themselves and where humans, equipped with “clever clothes,” could take flight at a moment’s notice. A new book on the future of transport by two New Zealand professors, Chris Kissling and John Tiffin, envisions just such a world — where nanotechnology, satellite communications and computer [...]
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Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have said “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.” The sentiment is still strong as the private car continues to be dominant. Lynsey Hanley pulls no punches in the Guardian, blaming most of our social and environmental ills [...]
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Ozone — best known for filtering out harmful UV light as a component of the Earth’s stratosphere — could dramatically reduce plants’ ability to act as a carbon sink and thus cause further accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to a new study published in Nature. In addition to damaging human tissues (particularly [...]
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“The province of Ontario, Canada’s biggest energy user, aims to close its last coal-fired power plant in 2014 and become the only jurisdiction in North America to completely phase out coal, a strategy that some critics deride as reckless and others say is overly timid. The coal plan is the major plank in the climate [...]
Maryke Steffens
7 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Lead researcher,
Veerabhadran Ramanathan,
with unmanned aircraft
Brown clouds of pollution that stretch over the Indian Ocean during the dry season are warming the climate just as much as greenhouse gases, say scientists.
According to a study, published last week (2 August) in the journal Nature, these ‘atmospheric brown clouds’ could be directly responsible for [...]
SciDev.net
The magnitude of the global carbon sink can be estimated by comparing the rate at which carbon is being emitted into the atmosphere — currently about 7 Gigatonnes a year, which we know from inventories of fossil fuel and biomass burning — with measurements of the [...]
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Been meaning to get to this for months, although the “currency” of the story has only ascended. Under the headline “US Manufacturers Say C02 Cap Would Mean Price Surge” Dow Jones Newswire (subscription only) carried this last May:- “Chemical manufacturers and other businesses dependent on natural gas are concerned that U.S. congressional efforts to [...]
Climate Crisis CoalitionGrowing Concern about Greenland Ice Melt Prompts U.N. Scientist to Call for Stiff Carbon Taxes.By Gerard Wynn, Reuters, Jun 26, 2007. “New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists [...]
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