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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:31 PM PDT
Storms page 114    ***** Jim Hansen: 'Cut coal emissions 50% by 2020, 100% by 2030, means peak ppm 400-425 by 2050.' .'
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Storms of my Grandchildren P106
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:04 PM PDT
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TargetCO2_20080407.pdf
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:40 PM PDT
Page 94 Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:52 AM PDT
Laboratory Equipment Common Metals Can Make Cheap, Sustainable Solar Panels Laboratory Equipment - ‎5 hours ago‎ New solar panels made with more common metals could be cheaper and more sustainable. Image With enough sunlight falling on home roofs to supply at least half of America's electricity, scientists described advances toward the less-expensive solar energy ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:48 AM PDT
ThinkProgress Creating A Truly Level Playing Field: Putting Renewables Subsidies In Context ThinkProgress - ‎3 hours ago‎ In a 2011 study of historical US energy subsidies published by DBL Investors, Nancy Pfund and Ben Healy analyse US federal government support for various energy industries during their formative years.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:43 AM PDT
West Nile outbreak largest ever in US CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎ (CNN) -- The recent West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States, according to new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC says US deaths from West Nile virus jump to 41USA TODAY CDC: West Nile outbreak 'one of largest' in USHouston Chronicle Your preferred source:
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:48 AM PDT
Triple Pundit See realtime coverage You Can't Fly an Airplane with an Algae Pond on It…Or Can You? Triple Pundit - ‎7 hours ago‎ United's growing confidence in biofuels calls to mind presidential candidate Mitt Romney's now-infamous statement that “you can't drive a care with a windmill on it. United Joins Airline Biofuels GroupEnvironmental Leader United States :
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT
Future State Of Charge: How Clean Will Electric Vehicles Get?ThinkProgress
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT
ThinkProgress See realtime coverage Report: electric vehicle sales to top 130 million by 2025 Written by David Worthington SmartPlanet.com (blog) - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎ Global Information Inc. yesterday announced a report that forecasts the electric vehicle market's outlook over the next ten years. Future State Of Charge: How Clean Will Electric Vehicles Get?
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Urine could be used to absorb CO2 emissions and produce NPK fertilizer Biobased Digest - ‎3 hours ago‎ In Spain, Manuel JimĂ©nez Aguilar of the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training of the Regional Government of Andalusia has authored a paper explaining on urine could be used to both fertilize and fix CO2 in the soil. To avoid the ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Triple Pundit From a Mammoth Energy Efficiency Project, New Products Grow Triple Pundit - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎ One of the most significant energy efficiency projects in recent years is underway in the State of Washington, and it could set the stage for new growth in the U.S. NORPAC, BPA partner on northwest energy-efficiency projectHome Channel News
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:17 AM PDT
Greentech Media Building Energy Efficiency at Six Times the Speed Greentech Media - ‎3 minutes ago‎ Energy efficiency may be the cheapest way for utilities to reduce power demand, and thus avoid building expensive and polluting new power plants.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT
My Moinfo See realtime coverage China to spend $372 billion on cutting energy use, pollution Reuters - ‎53 minutes ago‎ However, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and according to a recent report, China's carbon output grew by 800 million tonnes to 9.7 billion last year, or 29 percent of the world's totalCO2 emissions. Government officials said they expect ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:23 AM PDT
Britain's insect population decimated by wet weather as experts warn many ... Daily Mail - ‎5 hours ago‎ The Buglife conservation charity says that bees, wasps, moths and butterflies have all seen their populations drop in 2012 - and rare species may be at risk of extinction due to the elements. Bees and wasps have struggled to find enough nectar and ... UK insect numbers 'very low
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:05 AM PDT
Study finds cattle feed supplements can reduce methane emissions ABC Online - ‎14 hours ago‎ A study has shown that adding certain oil-rich by-products to feed can reduce methane emissions in cattle by 15-20 percent.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:18 AM PDT
Vestas wind turbine firm to cut another 1400 jobs BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎ Danish wind turbine firm Vestas has announced plans to cut another 1400 jobs as it prepares for a drop in business next year as demand slows. Wind layoffs spread: About 30 jobs cut in BrightonPueblo Chieftain Danish wind turbine maker Vestas to lay off 1400 workersWashington Post See realtime coverage »
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:53 AM PDT
Solar Panels Can Save You Both Energy and Money PlanetSave.com - ‎3 hours ago‎ Today, more and more home owners are becoming increasingly energy conscious. Stories about climate change have been over the news for the past decades, and there are many changes from large to small that you, as a home owner, would be able to ... Report: Consumers switch to solar thanks to rising energy
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:53 PM PDT
Power Line (blog) A Modest Proposal to Create More “Green Jobs” Power Line (blog) - ‎Aug 19, 2012‎ Senator Barbara Boxer made much of a 2011 study by the Brookings Institution proclaiming that it showed there are more green jobs (in the Clean Economy) than jobs in the fossil fuel industry. Indeed, the study states there are 2.7 million jobs in the ...
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:52 PM PDT
Carbon farming: a solution to global land degradation and poverty? The Conversation - ‎Aug 19, 2012‎ First, one should be cautious about over-selling carbon farming as a panacea for controlling widespread land degradation and carbon emissions.
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT
Biomass Magazine China's jet biofuels: ready for take off? Financial Times (blog) - ‎19 hours ago‎ China consumes about 29m tonnes of cooking oil a year, and much of it, when the frying is over, gets thrown away. Boeing believes this “gutter oil”, as it is locally known, could turn out to be liquid gold.
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:34 PM PDT
400-mile Electric Car Batteries Are Around the Corner, Or Not PluginCars.com - ‎5 hours ago‎ People tell me things, big things, about electric car batteries. The hard part is knowing whether to believe the claims, which suggest that low-cost, high-density lithium-ion batteries are just around the bend. GM's electric Spark: It's all about the batteriesPhys.Org
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:15 PM PDT
For How Long Can Society Bear the Costs of Industry's Toxic Pollution? OilPrice.com - ‎22 hours ago‎ If wells drilled to date for hazardous waste disposal are already poisoning drinking water, what will be the consequences of drilling hundreds of thousands of additional oil and natural gas wells around the world into newly accessible shale deposits--a
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT
Life in the slow lane pushes turtles towards extinction The Conversation - ‎1 hour ago‎ Nearly half of all turtle fauna are threatened or extinct in the wild. Australia is not immune from these global trends: six of our freshwater turtle species are listed as nationally threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ...
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Sea life facing major extinction 'shock' ScienceBlog.com (blog) - ‎8 hours ago‎ Three of the five largest extinctions of the past 500 million years were associated with global warming and acidification of the oceans - trends which also apply today, the scientists say in a new article in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Earth's Oceans 'Facing A Man-Made Major Extinction
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:40 PM PDT
Solar grows over 100% in US in 2011, more in 2012 Clean Energy Authority - ‎9 hours ago‎ Last week among other news in solar the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) released any report showing that solar is going up across the U.S. Replicable Off-Grid Solar Business Models For IndiaGreener Ideal TTU GENERATING SOLAR ENERGY FOR COOKEVILLEPower Engineering Magazine See
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:33 PM PDT
Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought Earth Island Journal - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎ “Methane is 21 times more heat-trapping that carbon dioxide.” If you're a frequent reader of environmental websites, no doubt you've seen some version of that sentence many times.
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:32 PM PDT
EIA: 'Natural Gas, Renewables Dominate Electric Capacity Additions In First ... ThinkProgress - ‎4 hours ago‎ Most of the new generators built over the past 15 years are powered by natural gas or wind. In 2012, the addition of natural gas and renewable generators comes at a time when natural gas and renewable generation are contributing increasing amounts to ... Natural gas,
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT
Independent assessment confirms drop in Amazon deforestation for 2011-2012 Mongabay.com - ‎12 hours ago‎ Independent analysis has confirmed a drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the year ended July 31, 2012. The assessment, released by Brazil-based Imazon, is consistent with a sharp decline in deforestation reported by the Brazilian ...
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT
LA's Pollution from Car Exhaust is Down 98% from the 60s Treehugger - ‎8 hours ago‎ So tax carbon emissions. Regulate them. Price them. Whatever. We'll get more efficient buildings, still-cleaner cars, breakthroughs in renewable energy sources, and new pollution-scrubbing technologies. And if we do it right, the next generation could ...
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:04 AM PDT
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/08/21/gullible-warming-a-contrived-crisis-that-is-too-good-to-waste/ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/18/120618fa_fact_lizza
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT
Action on climate change speeding up: Commission ABC Online - ‎13 hours ago‎ The Climate Commission has released its third major report, saying international efforts to tackle climate change are accelerating rapidly. New report says efforts to fight climate change have acceleratedRadio Australia As a carbon heavyweight, Australia needs to lift its gameBrisbane Times From
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:19 AM PDT
Obama plan for high-speed rail, after hitting a bump, chugs forward again Christian Science Monitor - ‎1 hour ago‎ But the Obama plan to build high-speed rail corridors, conceived in 2009 and intended to catch America up to the sophisticated passenger rail systems in Asia and Europe, has lately been revived by two turns of events.
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Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:09 PM PDT
The Climate Change Limits of US Natural Gas Council on Foreign Relations (blog) - ‎11 hours ago‎ The Associated Press reported last week that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped to a twenty-year low on the back of abundant natural gas. In Era of Climate Change, A Divided Path for Energy and Environmental Policy ...Circle of Blue WaterNews (blog) Can natural gas solve
Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:58 PM PDT
Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought Earth Island Journal - ‎4 hours ago‎ When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to come up with a way for comparing different greenhouse gases, it decided to use a century baseline to calculate a molecule's “global warming potential.” See this graph here: Table: Global ...
Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT
Can natural gas really help tackle global warming? A primer. Washington Post (blog) - ‎22 minutes ago‎ A recent PNAS study found that if the leakage rate from natural-gas production is roughly 6 percent, then a natural gas plant would contribute more to global warming than a coal plant would over the first 25 years of its lifespan. After that, the ...
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Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:57 AM PDT
Tropical Diseases: The New Plague of Poverty New York Times - ‎22 hours ago‎ An additional 20 million Americans live in extreme poverty. In the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, poverty rates are near 20 percent. In some of the poorer counties of Texas, where I live, rates often approach 30 percent. In ...
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Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:12 PM PDT
Mother Nature Network New York Ranks Third In Green Jobs The Ithaca Independent - ‎21 hours ago‎ New York announced three projects with 1408 potential jobs, according to the latest quarterly Clean Energy Roundable released Thursday by Environmental Entrepreneurs. California announced 16 projects worth 20879 potential jobs, while Florida unveiled ...
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:56 PM PDT
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:31 PM PDT
How important is the two degree target? Energy Collective - ‎10 hours ago‎ But the 2°C objective is just the beginning of a long chain which must ultimately stretch down to the allowable emissions of a given power plant or the need to store a tonne of CO2 in a subsurface reservoir. This chain is riddled with uncertainty which ...
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:40 PM PDT
Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy Wired News (blog) - ‎12 hours ago‎ Sometimes the hydrocarbons take the form of oil, but mostly they exist as natural gas. Over the past 30 years, the technology needed to break up those rocks and get at this gas has steadily advanced. What's Reducing Carbon Emissions? Natural Gas.Daily Beast AP IMPACT: CO2
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:24 AM PDT
Conservative Energy Agency (IEA) Warning That 'Lock in' to Irreversible Climate Change Only 5 Years Away Far Too Optimistic; Reality Even More Dire
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 05:28 PM PDT
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Carbonized Li-On Batteries Can Charge 100 Times Quicker Gizmodo - ‎4 hours ago‎ The new technique, though, developed by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, makes batteries that are densely interwoven with conductors, so the entire battery can start charging at the same time. To do ...
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:41 AM PDT
2018 Global Biofuels Consumption to Reach 135 Billion Gallons, Report Finds CleanTechnica - ‎9 hours ago‎ All the factors mentioned above have increased interest in advanced biofuels, including algae, palm oil, and jatropha seeds, according to the report.
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT
Morning Whistle GM's Volt Continues to Shock and Awe Barron's - ‎1 hour ago‎ Total electric-vehicle (EV) sales (battery electric (BEV) and PHEV) were up 190% year-over-year in July to 3016, albeit falling 10% month-over-month, in line with seasonal softness in total U.S. US electric vehicles sales up 190pc YoY in JulyMorning Whistle
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT
US Takes 9th Place in Energy Efficiency! (Out of 12). Energy Collective - ‎1 hour ago‎ A new report from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) ranked the energy efficiency of the world's 12 largest economies.
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:42 AM PDT
New Mäori marine reserves Fishnewseu - ‎6 hours ago‎ NEW Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries today announced the approval of five new marine reserves for local Mäori populations, which will come into effect on 13 September.
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:39 AM PDT
Burkina Faso - The Man Who Stopped the Desert (HD) Journeyman Weekly - ‎7 hours ago‎ In Burkina Faso, the rapid desertification of the once fertile plains of the Sahel caused droughts and ruined harvests, sparking a mass exodus of village inhabitants and famines that decimated populations.
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT
Scientists breed the burps out of sheep Stock and Land - ‎11 hours ago‎ “Methane production is largely dependent on diet quality and feed intake, but research in cattle shows that animals selected for higher feed efficiency produce less methane per kilogram of dry matter intake than cattle selected for lower efficiency ...
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 08:36 AM PDT
The White House team likes Oregon's wind energy Statesman Journal (blog) - ‎14 hours ago‎ WASHINGTON - The Energy Department released a new report
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT
Gates Foundation gives big grant for solar toilet research Clean Energy Authority - ‎1 hour ago‎ His team uses solar energy delivered through fiber-optic cables to heat and decompose a container of fecal matter inside a latrine to more than 200 degrees Celsius and transform it into a charcoal material for reuse in improving agricultural soil. Solar Power to Fulfill Dream of Bill
Posted: 16 Aug 2012 08:30 AM PDT
Climate change threatens New Mexico ski season Santa Fe New Mexican.com - ‎9 hours ago‎ “Climate change will have serious adverse effects on the tourist industry,” the Demos study states. “Warmer winter weather, reduced snowpack and earlier melting will shorten the ski season and force ski areas to spend more money on snow-making
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