Until recently, these trends were extremely difficult to calculate due to a lack of data
about carbon dioxide in coastal waters.
To understand where that carbon dioxide is going, we need precise, comprehensive, ongoing
data about carbon dioxide absorption and emission by forests, the ocean and many other regions.
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If we eliminated emissions of methane and black carbon, but did
nothing about carbon dioxide we would have delayed but not significantly reduced long - term threats posed by climate change.
WASHINGTON — Choices made now
about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.
But if McKibben and his crew can get people all over the world to
talk about the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, they can surely find a way to make corporate personhood interesting.
«They found no need to
worry about the carbon dioxide fuel - burning puts in the atmosphere,» the Post said in the story, which was spotted last week by Washington resident John Lockwood, who was doing research at the Library of Congress and alerted the Washington Times to his finding.
In his review of Robert Laughlin's book Powering the Future, Fred Pearce summarises the author's view as «ultimately the planet won't care
much about our carbon dioxide emissions» because the gas will all end up in the oceans (1 October, p 46).
While finishing up her dissertation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Parkinson and climate scientist William Kellogg decided to take the
theory about carbon dioxide emissions increasing global temperatures and apply it to a sea ice model that Parkinson had built.
«What's different
[about carbon dioxide] is the scale and the disruption in the energy system from having to transition from carbon - intensive fuels to carbon neutrality,» he added.
But, noted Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., «If we do want to have reefs around by 2050, we are going to have to do
something about carbon dioxide» to slow global warming and acidification.
Part two describes what was
clear about carbon dioxide's impacts and energy trends 40 years ago, but also the «morass of uncertainties,» many of which remain unclear today:
By combining
information about the carbon dioxide emissions released by burning the fuels sold by these companies, with statistics about sea level changes, the researchers tried to determine the proportional responsibility of each company.
«Yes, the Coalition should, in my opinion, ditch it because there is no need to take any
action about carbon dioxide at all,» he told the National Press Club.
The carbon emissions from fossil fuel use might have increased global mean temperature by about one - sixth of one degree, so what's with all the
fuss about carbon dioxide?
The Marshall Institute was founded in 1984 by three outstanding scientists, each of whom knew
more about carbon dioxide and climate than 97 % of the IPCC authors combined:
The second energy challenge is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is
mostly about carbon dioxide, most of which emanates from stationary sources (heat and power).
That is why, whenever you see a press release from the
EU about carbon dioxide abatement, you will see them trumpet their results since 1990.
«The [trading] price is not high enough to have an impact on the way people
think about carbon dioxide,» says economist Geoff Heal of the Columbia Business School.
I make no bones about the fact that I am determined to stamp out the
hoax about carbon dioxide having any warming effect, because it is a travesty of physics, a huge cost to society and, indirectly, causes thousands of deaths.
Exxon documents obtained by ICN show that top corporate managers were informed by their own
scientists about carbon dioxide's potentially severe effect on the climate as far back as the late 1970s.
Thanks to the single - minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional
wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant.