Not exact matches
ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating
carbon dioxide emissions based
on its finding that they endanger human health, among other
stories.
I read with concern the
story on energy - related
carbon dioxide emissions hitting a record high last year (4 June, p...
Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press
story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update
on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict
emissions of
carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.
The plaintiffs argued that
carbon dioxide emissions from projects funded by the two organizations are hurting these cities economically: «global warming, the suit argued, influences Santa Monica's water supply, the sea level near Oakland's airport and the snow
on Rocky Mountain ski slopes» near Boulder, Colorado, according to the LAT
story.
This is a terrific, ongoing
story that sometimes can get lost in the daily back and forth over who's doing what
on climate: Industry reducing
emissions while also producing a natural gas abundance that benefits consumers, manufacturers and the environment, taking a lead role in reducing
carbon dioxide levels to 25 - year lows.
In a
story published
on the WSU website and now getting wide distribution Deemer said she measured dissolved gases in the water column of Lacamas Lake in Clark County and found that methane
emissions — a substance 25 times more effective than
carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere — jumped 20-fold when the water level was drawn down.
New government stats
on falling
carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions from electrical power generation point to a good - news
story on energy and climate, one that should grab the attention of policymakers nationally and in the states.
Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today
on reducing
carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary
stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?