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US Coal Declines, As Overseas It Grows More Climate Change
As US coal declines in price and use, global coal trade rose over 13% in 2010, and a new World Resource Institute report says at least 1200 new coal plants are planned worldwide, reports Bryan Walsh at Time Magazine. Furthermore, … Continue reading
Climate Efforts-Goals Gap Widening – UN
A new UN report on rising greenhouse gas emissions reminded world governments that their efforts to fight climate change are far from enough to meet their stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, about three and a … Continue reading
Invest in Clean Energy or Lose Trillions, Say Biggest Investors
The world’s largest investors recently called on governments to act on climate change and boost clean-energy investment, or risk trillions of dollars in investments and disruption to economies. The investors, responsible for managing $22.5 trillion in assets, said rapidly growing … Continue reading
California Cap N Trade Will Benefit Residents
The state that has instigated every key U.S. effort to curb fossil-fuel emissions since the 1960s now will tackle the greatest challenge of all—reining in greenhouse gases—with a cap-and-trade system launched recently, reports Daniel Stone at National Geographic News. Issuing … Continue reading
Siberian Carbon Bomb Starting – New Study
A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast, frozen for tens of thousands of years, is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw parts of its coastline, a study in the journal Nature warns, reports Agence France Presse in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, environment, global warming, rising sea levels, Russia, Siberia
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Slash Carbon Emissions, Says Business and Green Coalition
More than 300 businesses, environmentalists and community groups in 10 Northeast states urged governors to adopt tougher targets for power plant greenhouse gas emissions under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade program, reports Maria Gallucci at InsideClimate News. … Continue reading
Clean Energy Could Save Over $100 Trillion by 2050 – IEA Report
The International Energy Agency continues its string of blunt reports laying bare the reality of our climate and energy system, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress. Their new report, Energy Technology Perspectives 2012, says that new natural gas investments can play … Continue reading
Odds Are, Climate Change Is Happening – Study
The top climate scientist at the National Atmospheric and Space Administration, James Hansen, has produced a new study showing that the record-breaking type of heat hammering the US and the planet in recent years is normally so rare that its … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon emissions, climate change, environment, extreme heat, extreme weather, fossil fuels, global warming, heat waves, NASA
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US Most to Blame for Global Warming
The largest cumulative contributor of greenhouse gases by far is the US, making it the nation most to blame for global warming, reports Bill Blakemore at ABC News. The US has injected the greatest amount of the heat-trapping invisible gas … Continue reading
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Carbon Capture and Storage Likely To Cause Earthquakes, Trigger Leaks
Capturing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and pumping it deep underground for permanent storage has been billed as a way to curtail global warming, but some scientists are raising new concerns that storing carbon dioxide that way could cause … Continue reading
