The university educators assigned teachers to read
articles about greenhouse gases before participating in the activities.
I can count myself as one of those after
my article about the greenhouse gas emissions from producing and transporting one bottle of Fiji water all the way from the South Pacific to the US (do a Google search for «Fiji water» and my article is still one of the top links to appear).
I can count myself as one of those after
my article about the greenhouse gas emissions from producing and transporting one bottle of Fiji water
Not exact matches
In an
article to appear in the journal Energy Policy, the authors find that urban drivers who can frequently charge their vehicles (every 20 miles) can reduce
gas consumption,
greenhouse gas emissions, and expenses with a plug - in hybrid with a battery pack sized for
about seven miles of electric travel.
Also pack up all your cares and woes if you're concerned
about the future of renewables, especially solar power, the same section contains an
article in which Dr. Ray Kurzweil says in part:» Worried
about greenhouse gas emissions?
As for the parenthetical note in the original post above, noting that «the atmosphere currently holds
about 385 parts per million of the
greenhouse gas», a recent Reuters
article by Alister Doyle in Oslo reporting in early January 2008 put the latest current figure at 394 PPM.
A front - page
article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew
about the scientific consensus that
greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.
The study also found that
about 97 percent of all the comment
articles published in the Herald Sun newspaper either rejected or questioned the views of the vast majority of climate scientists that human emissions of
greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change.
Dr. Stanton's testimony, mentioned in a July 13
article by AP reporter Dave Gram
about the region's love - hate relationship with natural
gas, has helped to shift the dialogue
about greenhouse gas emissions to include the full, lifecycle impacts of long - lived energy infrastructure.
Teachers may decide to have students read and share the background
articles, linked above,
about greenhouse gases and global warming.
One is based on the average European energy mix, another on the average American energy mix (which is
about 45 % more CO2 - intensive)(Note: in this
article, «CO2» stands for CO2 - equivalents which means other
greenhouse gases are included).
In the 1970s, a few scientists wondered whether the cooling effect from aerosols would be greater than the heating produced from
greenhouse gases, and some popular publications ran
articles about a new Ice Age.
«People need to be aware that it isn't just CO2 that's the problem,» said Keith Shine of the University of Reading in England, co-author of an
article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science discussing the many unknowns
about the complex mixture of
greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's atmosphere.
The recent wave of news and magazine
articles about scientists struggling to explain the warming slowdown could prolong or deepen the public's skepticism.But the «consensus» never extended to the intricacies of the climate system, just the core belief that additional
greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet.