fossil fuel emissions News
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Global CO2 emissions may set a record this year
In its annual report card, scientists working with the GCP reported that although annual emissions in 2009 were 1.3 per cent below the record 2008 figures, partly attributed to the global financial crisis, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere continued its upward trend to reach a new high of 387 parts per million. Results from the GCP reported in a paper published today in ...
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Forests absorb one third our fossil fuel emissions
The world's established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere – equivalent to one third of current annual fossil fuel emissions – according to new research published today in the journal Science. This is the first time volumes of the greenhouse gas absorbed from the atmosphere by tropical, temperate and boreal forests have been so clearly ...
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Tall Towers Fitted to Track CO2 Emissions
BOULDER, Colorado, July 31, 2007 (ENS) - A new sensor in what will be a nationwide network for tracking carbon dioxide is now monitoring the air over Colorado's Front Range. A 1,000 foot tall tower east of Erie is one of 12 such towers that are being fitted with instruments by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, to capture the regional ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon. ...
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WBA comments on IPCC`s 5th assessment report
The first part of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report - “Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis” was published in Stockholm on the 27th of September 2013. This report offers a broad range of information about the development of the climate in the past and presents four different scenarios about possible developments till 2100. In the press release the WBA goes into ...
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New research claims emissions irrelevant to future climate change
Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. The land and the oceans contain significantly more carbon than the atmosphere, and exchange carbon dioxide with the ...
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Hooray for Paris! And now we can get on with addressing climate change...
Like many, I'm happy to see the Paris Agreement signed. It's much like the UN itself: inspiring and necessary, but reliant on the will of the member nations to be meaningful. It's an Agreement that facilitates and sets the framework, with a solid foundation for action, ratcheted up over time. But it doesn't help beat the unfolding catastrophe of climate change. That requires every nation, ...
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Carbon dioxide & methane rose sharply in 2007
Global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent last year alone, by 19 billion tons. Additionally methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or no increase. NOAA scientists have released these and other preliminary findings as part of an annual update to the agency’s greenhouse gas index, which tracks data ...
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Including CO2 emissions from land use in mitigation policy
A comprehensive tax on carbon emissions would lower the cost of meeting environmental goals whilst discouraging deforestation, according to a recent study. There is concern that climate change mitigation strategies may not always consider emissions from land use or their interaction with emissions from industrial and fossil fuel sources. For example, focusing on industrial and fossil fuel ...
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ExxonMobil probed on climate science
ExxonMobil is being investigated by New York state over whether it lied to the public about the risks of climate change, the oil giant said Thursday. Ken Cohen, a vice president for public affairs at ExxonMobil, described the demand for documents as a "broad subpoena" and said the company was still reviewing how to respond to it. A person familiar with the New York prosecutor's thinking said ...
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Coastal Waters Most Sensitive to Acid Rain
FALMOUTH, Massachusetts, September 11, 2007 (ENS) - The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agriculture plays a small role in making the ocean more acidic on a global scale, but the impact is amplified in shallow coastal waters, finds new research by atmospheric and marine chemists. Ocean 'acidification' occurs when chemical compounds such as carbon dioxide, ...
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Carbon capture and storage: climate impacts
One proposal for meeting targets for the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is to capture and store CO2 that is emitted by fossil fuel burning power stations. In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could help mitigate against climate change, especially in the short term. Using CCS, CO2 emitted from energy or industrial plants could be ...
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Oil price drop as tool to fight fossil carbon emissions
WBA and AEBIOM (European Biomass Association) are calling upon the governments to seize the opportunity presented by the oil price drop to act against fossil emissions. There has rarely been such an opportunity for the global community to take action against fossil carbon emissions and global warming as there is now, in January of 2015. Every government should act on their own, not waiting for a ...
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Impact of atmospheric particles on climate underestimated
Levels of global secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in the Earth's atmosphere have increased by 60 per cent since pre-industrial times, according to new research, which suggests that the effects of SOA have been previously underestimated. This new information could help lead to better estimates of future climate change. SOA is made up of fine particles and droplets suspended in the atmosphere and ...
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Clarke Energy Participates in COP22 Climate Change Conference in Marrakech
The Conference of the Parties is the leading climate change conference organised through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) and twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP12) was held between the 7-18th of November in Marrakech, Morocco. ...
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Clarke Energy Participates in COP22 Climate Change Conference in Marrakech
The Conference of the Parties is the leading climate change conference organised through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) and twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP12) was held between the 7-18th of November in Marrakech, Morocco. ...
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Stalled economy or not, record year for CO2 emissions
Each person on the planet produced 1.3 tons of carbon last year—an all-time high--despite a global recession that slowed the growth of fossil fuel emissions for the first time this decade, according to a report published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. Emissions grew 2 percent last year, to total 8.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide. The report was compiled by scientists affiliated ...
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Estimating GHG emissions from the non-energy use of fossil fuels
The quality of official greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories could be further improved if emissions from non-energy use of fossil fuels were accounted for in greater detail, according to new research. In the European Union, roughly six percent of fossil fuels are not consumed as an energy source but for so-called 'non-energy' purposes. Examples include the use of fossil fuels for the ...
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UN CLIMATE CHANGE MEETING MISSING CRITICAL DATA
Thermografix Consulting Corporation of Kelowna, British Columbia released details on 18 years of unprecedented research related to electrical energy provision, fossil fuel emissions and building function related to energy consumption. Thousands of hours of research were completed to verify actual Kyoto Compliance pertaining to buildings, development and their greenhouse gas emissions. ...
By Thermoguy
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Industrial pollutant melted European glaciers
Industrial emissions of black carbon were responsible for the retreat of the glaciers in the European Alps that marked the end of the so-called ‘Little Ice Age’, according to a new study. The researchers explain how black carbon deposits could have caused glaciers to melt more rapidly from the mid-19th century and suggest that human activities were already having a visible influence ...
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Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 per cent since 2000, new testing confirms
The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ‘sinks’ to absorb carbon is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last 50 years the average fraction of global CO2 emissions that remained in the ...
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