Showing posts with label IV Carbon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV Carbon. Show all posts
Monday, April 8, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Coal plants kill 120000 people a year: Greenpeace
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India's
breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis
with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20 million new asthma cases a year
due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.
The first study of the health impact ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Too slow to matter - Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Fall in U.S. Power Plants on Coal Cuts. Bloomberg
| Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Fall in U.S. Power Plants on Coal Cuts Bloomberg Greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants fell 4.5 percent in 2011 from the previous year as those facilities burned less coal, the most-intense source of carbon-dioxide pollution. In its second-annual accounting of greenhouse-gases, the U.S. ... See all stories on this topic » | |
| German Electricity for 2014 Advances as Carbon Emissions Recover Bloomberg Baseload German 2014 electricity, for supplies delivered around the clock, increased as much as 0.6 percent. Carbon permits gained as much as 5.1 percent on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London after falling 6.7 percent. Power can track emissions, ... See all stories on this topic » | |
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US carbon emissions fall to lowest levels since 1994.
US carbon emissions fall to lowest levels since 1994.
America's carbon dioxide emissions last year
fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report.
Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of
new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of
renewable energy.
The Guardian
Transmission: The missing link in the renewables revolution.
Transmission: The missing link in the renewables revolution.
You want to cut carbon to the levels
recommended by the International Panel on Climate Change? Then you’ll
need 100,000 Megawatts of new renewable power integrated into the
electrical grid. And in order to get that, you’ll need 25,000 miles of
new high voltage transmission lines.
High Country News
Thursday, February 7, 2013
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis. MIT Technology Review
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In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
***** Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration. MiamiHerald.com
| MiamiHerald.com | - |
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Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant. Yahoo
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The
U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an
agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the
country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage technology -- and dramatically ...
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Cities - 80% of GHG
| Moneycontrol.com | - |
In 2011, he told a conference in S'o Paulo that cities should co-operate to counter climate change since urban populations were responsible for 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Obama advisers call for halt to Arctic oil exploration. Guardian
Obama advisers call for halt to oil exploration.
The entire future of Shell's drilling plans in
the Arctic was put in doubt on Friday after two of Barack Obama's most
trusted advisers called for a permanent halt to oil exploration.
The Guardian
Friday, January 25, 2013
Five US Coal Export Facilities to Asia Proposed.
Coal's 'lifeline to Asia' emerges as new front in global warming fight.
Five proposed export terminals for U.S. coal
offer a lifeline to an industry being squeezed by low natural gas prices
and tougher environmental rules, a combination that has eaten into
domestic demand.
ClimateWire
Thursday, January 24, 2013
As of 2011 fossil fuels produced 83 percent of the world's energy according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). CSM
| Christian Science Monitor | - |
As of 2011 fossil fuels produced 83 percent of the world's energy according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Diesel Engines, Burning Wood, Forests: Soot Now Second Leading Cause of Global Warming Slate Magazine
| Slate Magazine (blog) | - |
Produced mostly by diesel engines and burning wood, soot has been found to have twice the impact on global warming as previously thought.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Climate change impacts volcanic eruptions. Tic, tic, tic...
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A new study finds an unexpected correlation between rising temperatures and volcanic activity.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Wonder why Mid-Easterners hate US? WE DID THIS TO THEM - Two-thirds of Iranians believe in Global Warming. AME Info
| AME Info | - |
The majority of respondents (76%) think that Global Warming
is caused by human activities, compared to the 42% of Americans polled
by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in October 2012.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
***** 5 MILLION 2010: 10 places climate change kills the most people. MarketWatch
| MarketWatch | - |
Global climate change
and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million
people around the world in 2010, according to a report released earlier
this year by climate change advocacy group DARA. By 2030, this figure will rise to nearly 6 ...
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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