Tag: global warming
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February 29, 2008 04:05 AM EST --
Lights consume about 2 trillion kilowatt-hours annually, or one-eighth of all electric power. Globally, lighting is equal in emission contribution to about 70% of the world's passenger vehicles. Of . . .
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January 22, 2009 05:52 AM EST --
While the weather has been cold in some places over the past few months, the year 2008 was among the ten warmest years in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1880. The . . .
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March 03, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Damon Matthews , from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira , from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA, used a global climate model to study the impact of reductions of greenhouse . . .
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March 27, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
A huge ice shelf, measuring 5,282 square miles (13,680 square kilometers), has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change on Antarctica. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a broad plate of permanent floating . . .
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December 20, 2008 06:54 AM EST --
When it's hot, should you turn on the car's air-conditioner?
As many will have experienced, driving with the air-conditioner on can increase fuel consumption by 10% or more. Yet, especially . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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April 16, 2008 06:20 AM EDT --
After publication of Ten Dangers of Global Warming , now more than a year ago, some said that the article was 'alarmist' and had 'dramatized' the impact of global warming. After the Intergovernmental . . .
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August 01, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Two studies published in the July 31 issue of Science help open the door to the hydrogen economy by eliminating the need for platinum in electrolyzers and fuel cells.
Hydrogen can be produced . . .
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . .
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May 15, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
The US government has listed polar bears as a threatened species, as Arctic sea ice shows dramatic reductions. On Wednesday, US Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne referred to the Endangered Species Act . . .
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June 09, 2008 05:46 AM EDT --
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act was defeated in the Senate last Friday. As CNN reports , President Bush said he would have vetoed the Senate bill anyway. So, it looks like major action on . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
Black carbon has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to a review study in the journal Nature Geoscience .
According to the study, . . .
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March 06, 2008 08:09 PM EST --
As is now abundantly clear, we cannot continue releasing emissions into the atmosphere as we have done in the past. Emissions should be cut dramatically everywhere around the world, the sooner the . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . .
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May 18, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Some people say that world population is "exploding" and that "overpopulation should be tackled", supposedly to deal with both food shortages and global warming. OK, the pope has a . . .
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November 19, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
Extract: As we shift away from fossil fuel and as the number of wind turbines increases, more and more people are calling for a Supergrid - high capacity links carrying electricity between the major . . .
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April 29, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Why action needs to be taken
It has been known for decades that global warming is a problem. Over time, it has become increasingly clear that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to avoid catastrophe. . . .
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March 10, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
Climate Congress, Copenhagen, 10-12 March, 2009
Open letter to Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, IPCC chair
Dear Dr Pachauri,
The Climate Congress presents an important opportunity to present all facets . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:33 AM EDT --
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute cinema-documentary about climate change, set in the future. It features an archivist living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, according to a Reuters report on the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and . . .
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