Showing posts with label IV Methane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV Methane. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Melting ‘Permafrost’ Releases Climate-Warming CO2 Even Faster Than We Thought

Melting ‘Permafrost’ Releases Climate-Warming CO2 Even Faster Than We Thought

First-time reports from industry reveal massive methane emissions.

First-time reports from industry reveal massive methane emissions. U.S. EPA's addition of oil, gas and coal methane emissions to its online greenhouse gas tracking tool revealed an 82.6-million-metric-ton increase in carbon dioxide equivalents over numbers from the previous year, when those figures were not available. ClimateWire

Friday, January 18, 2013

Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel Future StateImpact Pennsylvania

New research questions climate benefits of natural gas
TheTyee.ca
Powering western society with natural gas instead of coal has immediate ... At that rate, gas may actually accelerate dangerous global warming faster than ...
Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel Future
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Proponents of natural gas tout new shale deposits, ... when lowering emissions to halt climate change, the methane that leaks from natural gas wells is not ...

Monday, January 7, 2013

Thawing permafrost will increse global warming

Thawing permafrost will increse global warming

New Era - ‎38 minutes ago‎
DOHA - Policymakers and climate scientists must monitor and prepare for large carbon dioxide and methane emissions from permafrost, says the startling report on additional global warming as a result of thawing permafrost, released by the United Nations ...

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Saturday, September 22, 2012

More on Arctic methane—Vast kilometer-wide methane "plumes" seen in Arctic ... AMERICAblog

More on Arctic methane—Vast kilometer-wide methane "plumes" seen in Arctic ...

AMERICAblog (blog) - ‎4 hours ago‎
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Deep-Sea Methane, Wind that Could Power World? National Geographic

Deep-Sea Methane, Wind that Could Power World?

National Geographic - ‎5 hours ago‎
Deep-Sea Methane, Wind that Could Power World? Posted by Tim Profeta of Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University on September 13, 2012.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Melting permafrost may speed up warming: study Victoria Times Colonist

Melting permafrost may speed up warming: study

Victoria Times Colonist - ‎4 hours ago‎
MacDougall said the UVic analysis, which used a sophisticated computerized Earth System Climate Model, showed the international aim of limiting global warming to less than two degrees - confirmed in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord - is becoming less and ...

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Antarctic ice covers .4-1Trillion Tons of C02 Equivalent in Methaneree Press

Antarctic ice may cover 4 billion tons of methane

Winnipeg Free Press - ‎20 hours ago‎
LOS ANGELES -- Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Greenhouse gases could lurk beneath Antarctic ice sheet Los Angeles Times

Greenhouse gases could lurk beneath Antarctic ice sheet

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Antarctic methane could worsen global warming: scientists Chicago Tribune

Antarctic methane could worsen global warming: scientists

Chicago Tribune - ‎2 hours ago‎
LONDON (Reuters) - Large volumes of the greenhouse gas methane could have been produced under the Antarctic Ice Sheet over millions of years, which could add to global warming if released into the atmosphere by a thaw, a study said on Wednesday.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own Hands CleanTechnica

Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own Hands

CleanTechnica - ‎1 hour ago‎
Small island countries around the world probably face the gravest threat from global warming and climate change. Some of these countries are also among the economically weakest in the world.

Recently, Micronesia proposed several strategies to counter climate change.

Recently, Micronesia proposed several strategies to counter climate change.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Jim Hansen: "about 5 trillion tons of carbon in the form of methane ice and methane bubbles" exist today

Storms... p107

Study finds cattle feed supplements can reduce methane emissions ABC Online

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.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought Earth Island Journal

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.