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Shale Gas: Not a 'Game Changer' After All15 Jun, 2011 04:51 pm Newly accessible natural gas from deep shale deposits around the world has been touted as a solution to everything from oil dependence to climate change...Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest1 Sep, 2010 12:32 pm The fossil fuel industry often pretends to have the public's best interests in mind. The operative word is "pretends."Australia Plans to be Carbon-Neutral by 2020.25 Aug, 2010 10:48 pm By means of a huge new installation of concentrating solar thermal (CST) and wind-power and the electrification of its transportation infrastructure,...Report Says, Algal Biofuels May Not Cut Carbon Emissions, but Read it More Closely.8 Apr, 2010 09:48 am According to a life-cycle analysis, growing algae to make biofuels is overall worse in terms of carbon-emissions than growing land-based crops like corn...Will Enhanced Oil Recovery Be An Oil Supply Savior?24 Mar, 2010 07:01 pm Oil supply optimists often say that the application of enhanced oil recovery techniques to existing and future wells will vastly expand oil reserves and...Microalgae Producing Energy Through Emissions11 Jan, 2010 01:42 pm A greenhouse near Aachen is dedicated not to growing plants,but to cultivating algae. Researchers use algae to consume carbon dioxide,...United States Half Way to 2020 CO2 Goal3 Dec, 2009 09:47 am For the fifth consecutive year, EPA is reporting an increase in fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions...Carbon Particles a Factor in Climate Change?2 Dec, 2009 08:15 am Black carbon particles from burning oil-based fuels and biomass, particularly in developing countries, are not only a health-hazard but may also contribute..."A failure in the Copenhagen process would be devastating for any chances to achieve 450ppm"20 Nov, 2009 03:16 pm IEA Head Energy Efficiency & Environment Division Richard Bradley talks to Scitizen about the World Policy Conference, the World Energy Outlook 2009 and...Go Nuclear to Avert Climate Change2 Nov, 2009 02:58 pm It is proposed by the U.K. government's chief scientific advisor that we should go for nuclear to avert climate change but time and uranium supplies are...Carbon nanotube springs have potential to compete with batteries5 Oct, 2009 02:46 pm MIT scientists find that carbon nanotubes springs have potential to store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries. They are also more reliable and more...Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty23 Sep, 2009 03:17 pm Earlier this month, the Royal Society of the UK issued a report entitled "Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty"..."Slime" Could Be Latest Weapon in Climate Fight Arsenal4 Sep, 2009 12:20 pm No - this is not an obscure Ghostbusters reference. According to the Financial Times, geo-engineering experts at the UK-based Institution of Mechanical...Is the International Target of 2 Degrees Warming a "Pipe Dream?"12 Aug, 2009 08:59 pm The Sydney Morning Herald reported late last week that research by Australian National University scientist Andrew Macintosh indicates that,...Agroforestry & Sustainable Agriculture: Vast Potential to Lower Emissions, Store Carbon6 Aug, 2009 05:34 pm Researchers working on a joint World Agroforestry Centre-United Nations Environment Programme project suggest that integrating agroforestry in farming...Are the proposed UK feed-in tariffs high enough to stimulate investment in small-scale generation?21 Jul, 2009 11:48 pm After months of deliberation, the UK government has announced a range of illustrative figures for feed-in tariffs (FiTs). FiTs are fixed payments made...Report Details Sharp Drop in U.S. Power Plant Emissions17 Jul, 2009 02:55 pm A report released last week by Energy data provider Genscape (and reported by Reuters) says that between January and June of this year, U.S...No sign of break in the link between emissions and higher GDP10 Jul, 2009 03:29 pm An important recent paper looked at the links between economic prosperity and carbon footprint.[1] It compared the average emissions per head in 73 different...Tariffs in the Climate Bill30 Jun, 2009 11:18 pm A number of people have written to ask why I haven't commented on the climate bill. There are two reasons. First, the House and Senate versions are very...How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?9 Jun, 2009 02:48 pm Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.Climate Change | The Big Question18 May, 2009 11:19 am Look back over the last decade, and what stands out. There has been 3 major trends of discussion:How much is it going to cost to decarbonise the economy?12 May, 2009 11:28 am The government wants to emphasise the affordability of climate change mitigation. It produces low estimates of the cost of low-carbon technologies...Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future3 May, 2009 06:29 pm Proposals to reduce global warming through giant engineering projects or so-called geoengineering abound. Almost all are in the idea stage...A closer look at geochemical carbon management24 Apr, 2009 08:55 am In view of the ever more pressing problem of climate change, options to reduce CO2 emissions and to increase CO2 sequestration become increasingly important...EPA To Begin Regulating New Coal-Fired Plant Carbon Emissions24 Feb, 2009 07:36 pm The Environmental Protection Agency has made a start with the active regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from newly built coal-fired power plants...Carbon Debt Explained23 Feb, 2009 06:24 pm Jessica Harrop explains the concept of carbon debt - how the release of carbon stored in the soil, when land is cleared, can make ethanol worse than we...Expansion of U.S. Passenger Rail Service as the Ultimate "Off the Shelf" Green Investment (Part I)13 Feb, 2009 11:34 am This is a brief examination of the potential benefits that could be brought to bear through a nationwide revival and expansion of intercity passenger rail...Thinking Positive - Carbon Capture.9 Feb, 2009 07:59 pm In principle carbon capture using regenerative agriculture, ocean seeding/phytoplankton growth, biochar and algae production, coupled with societal relocalisation...Another Way to Skin the Carbon Cat9 Dec, 2008 11:56 am by Richard T. Stuebi. The challenges associated with climate change are so daunting -- so much emission reductions to achieve, so much money to invest...Can Cap and Dividend Really Save the Economy or the Planet?21 Oct, 2008 06:20 pm A clean energy economic stimulus plan could truly be climate advocates' "Trojan horse," as columnist Eric Pooley writes. But NOT if they follow Pooley's...Carbon capture and storage is an end-of-pipe dream15 Sep, 2008 12:34 pm The Government is basing its enthusiasm for new coal-burning power stations on the notion of retrofitting CCS (carbon capture and storage) in the future...Oil Net Trawls Arctic.28 Jul, 2008 04:13 pm While the latest geological surveys indicate there may lie one fifth of the world's unrecovered gas and oil under the Arctic-ice,...Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste23 Jul, 2008 10:02 am Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release from the company, reported on ICIS news and in...Carbon Forest Protection Payments: Who Gets the Check?16 Jul, 2008 03:15 pm I have long protected my forests, now where is my money? The Rights and Resources Initiative provides some interesting cautionary advice in new reports...The Benefits of $4 Gas15 Jul, 2008 12:04 pm There was a great article last week in Time. It covers a lot of 'hot button' issues with me, such as suburban sprawl, shorter work weeks,...Elizabeth May on Dion's Carbon Tax Plan5 Jun, 2008 12:10 pm Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May discusses the Liberal carbon tax plan and the NDP's negative reaction to it. "I'm disappointed Mr. Layton...Permanent Wood Sequestration as a Means to Solve the Global CO2 Problem28 May, 2008 11:57 am By Drs. Fritz Scholz and Ulrich Hasse: The increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere ranks first among the global environmental threads...Power From Formic Acid20 May, 2008 11:05 am One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society.Carbon Balance and Management15 May, 2008 12:38 pm Current understanding of processes relevant for climate supports the view that the warming of the last decades is attributed basically to anthropogenic...Technological Breakthrough in the Fight to Cut Greenhouse Gases14 May, 2008 09:13 am Two of the major problems facing scientists at the start of the 21st century are undoubtedly: combating climate change and breaking the reliance of the...MIT Tracks Carbon Footprints of Different Lifestyles8 May, 2008 03:23 am In America, even the smallest footprints are large...Carbon Markets Need a Strong Urge from the Government29 Apr, 2008 10:24 am A senior adviser on carbon management to PricewaterhouseCoopers and adjunct professor at UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC),...David vs. Goliath: The Emerging Climate Fault Line15 Apr, 2008 07:15 pm A new fault line has emerged in the climate movement amidst a firestorm of debate over the past week. On one side is a group of old-guard and well-known...Are the IPCC Scenarios "Unreachable?": An Interview with Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr.3 Apr, 2008 11:33 am Scitizen has a 3-question interview with Roger Pielke, Jr., whose letter in this week's Nature with Tom Wigley and Christopher Green explains why they...The Geochemical Origin of Part of CO2 Emissions in Semiarid Climates4 Apr, 2008 11:49 am The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol has raised, among other pressing matters, the need of getting to know the annual levels of carbon in different...New Organic Molecule in Space1 Apr, 2008 01:07 pm Scientists detect amino acetonitrile near the center of our Milky WayGreen Computing11 Mar, 2008 11:43 am As companies expand, one of their concerns is restricting their carbon footprint. BBC World interviews Sean Whetstone, head of IT Services at Reed,...UK May Struggle to Meet Electricity Demands4 Mar, 2008 09:59 am A gap between demand and supply for electricity may strike the UK within 5 - 7 years, coinciding with the likely arrival of peak oil...Stabilizing the Climate Requires Near-Zero Carbon Emissions28 Feb, 2008 11:30 am What warming is produced by an individual release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? This question was addressed by Damon Matthews (Concordia University...Does Carbon Trading Really Work?29 Jan, 2008 05:03 pm Larry Lohmann, the editor of Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, discusses carbon trading.Annapolis Police "Go Green" with New Rides17 Jan, 2008 10:38 am The police department in charge of patrolling the state house and other government buildings in Annapolis, Maryland is going green. (WBAL TV, Baltimore)Cars Warm Up, Ships Cool Down21 Jan, 2008 12:09 pm Road traffic is by large the transport sector that contributes the most to global warming. Aviation has the second largest warming effect,...Climate Change Linked to Human Mortality14 Jan, 2008 12:10 pm Scitizen interviews Dr. Mark Jacobson, whose recent study demonstrates a cause-effect relationship between increased levels of carbon dioxide and increase...A Red Sea Dam: Huge Power and Massive Destruction18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Today?s technological know-how makes it possible to construct a dam across the southern entrance of the Red Sea. Evaporation is high in the Red Sea,...Just Plain Weird: An Odd Star Proves to Be a New Type of Object5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky...Some Thoughts on Carbon Taxes, Cap-and-Trade Programs, and Income Distributions20 Nov, 2007 03:35 pm From an economist's perspective, the carbon problem is straightforward: figure out the "right amount" of carbon and then put policies in place to get...The Link Between Agricultural Erosion and Global Warming19 Nov, 2007 10:37 am Carbon emissions are of great concern worldwide because they trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and are a major cause of global climate change...Do the World?s Oceans Take Up Less Carbon Dioxide?19 Nov, 2007 11:33 am The answer is: Yes, for the North Atlantic over the last decade.The "Other" Side of Climate Change: Rising CO2 and Marine Life15 Nov, 2007 02:22 pm Professor Ulf Riebesell, of the Department of Biological Oceanography at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel,...Post-Peak Oil (PPO) and Climate Change: A Call to Peaceful Arms23 Nov, 2007 11:34 am This is a short article on community transformation in a time of preparation for a post cheap oil future. On the face of it,...Ancient British Bog Provides Clue to Global Warming28 Sep, 2007 12:02 pm A group of interdisciplinary scientists have used the chemical signatures of microbial molecules preserved in ancient bog to learn how the Earth responded...Increase CO2 Levels Could Alter Rangelands31 Aug, 2007 03:41 pm Jack Morgan reports in this week issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that wide-open rangelands may become less common as shrubby...Flooding Risk under Future Global Warming Scenarios May Be Greater30 Aug, 2007 11:12 am A new study published today in Nature reports that current scenarios of global warming underestimate the contribution of plants to future changes in continental...Biofuels or Forests?23 Aug, 2007 11:37 am Carbon-free transport fuels present some of the most difficult problems in adapting to a low carbon economy and, while there are solutions like hydrogen...Jesus Freaks for Climate Change10 Aug, 2007 11:40 am Today's Washington Post includes an exploration of a relatively recent trend among evangelical Christians: environmentalism, or more specifically,...New Research Explores Making Electrical Contact with Nanotubes14 Aug, 2007 11:26 am With walls that can be just one atom thick, carbon nanotubes promise to enable technology that??s smaller, faster and more energy efficient than seems...Bio-inspired Super-strong Carbon Materials2 Aug, 2007 02:08 pm Our work in the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature demonstrates a materials platform that can be further tuned through chemistry to perhaps yield super-strong...Climate and Energy Security: Towards a Low Carbon Economy30 Jul, 2007 10:20 am World experts gather at Wilton Park to discuss climate change, energy security and plans for achieving low carbon economies in the future...Climate: A Bigger Picture26 Jul, 2007 03:08 pm Stephen Sitch, lead author of a study published today in Nature, reports that current climate models overlook the effects of atmospheric chemistry on global...Carbon Nanotubes Are Tougher and Supercompressible11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm We show that under repeated high compressive strains, the long nanotube block shows a viscoelastic behavior similar to that seen in the soft tissue membranes..."A Considerable Error" in Current Estimates of The Ocean Nitrification21 Jun, 2007 11:14 am Adrian Martin discusses his findings published in this week?s edition of Nature on the nitrification in the world?s oceans.Free-drifting Antarctic May Contribute to Organic Carbon Production and Sequestration in the Southern Ocean22 Jun, 2007 06:05 pm Listen to the interview with Kenneth Smith Jr., lead author of the report published today in Science (Sci Web Radio).Human Carbon Footprint Leaves a Lasting Mark on Forests14 Jun, 2007 12:42 pm Federico Magnani answers scitizen's questions on his latest report published today in Nature on the impact of human activity on the natural carbon in forests..."The Ocean Waters in The Southern Oceans Have Become Less Effective in Drawing Down Carbon Dioxide from The Atmosphere"8 Jun, 2007 04:14 pm The British Antarctic Survey has been conducting studies on the ocean's role as a natural carbon sink and how that role has been affected due to human..."It is Almost Guaranteed That China Will Miss the 20% Target by 2010"21 May, 2007 01:04 pm A recent report issued by the International Energy Agency states that China could surpass the United States in CO2 emissions in the near future..."There Is a Tendency to Be Over Preoccupied with Carbon Finance and Carbon Markets"14 May, 2007 01:01 pm The World Bank released its seventh annual carbon market intelligence study on carbon trading for 2007. Dennis Anderson, professor and senior research...The Global Carbon Budget: Proper Accounting Means Paying Attention to Inland Waters25 Apr, 2007 11:40 am Life as we know it, from the most basic microbes to our human neighbors, is carbon based. By investigating how carbon cycles through ecosystems,...?A Global Carbon Permit Market Is Not A Very Good Idea?30 Mar, 2007 11:42 am Interview with Warwick McKibbin, the director of the Center of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University and a professorial...Carbon Sequestration: "This is an interesting untested technology"26 Mar, 2007 12:00 pm Michael Dorsey, a carbon cycle scientist, reviews for Scitizen the different methods proposed to reduce carbon emissions.Rising Atmospheric CO2 May Stimulate Microbes to Release Carbon and Offset Gains in Carbon Uptake by Plants2 Apr, 2007 11:21 pm Changes in the amount of carbon in soils can affect the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. In a four year forest experiment, elevated CO2 caused a loss carbon...Hybrid Materials of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires24 Jan, 2007 04:36 pm As scientists look for new materials to replace silicon for faster computers, carbon nanotubes and nanowires of various kinds have appeared to be the most..."We?re Not Seeing any Discernable Effects of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Emissions"4 Dec, 2006 11:41 am In a recent Earth science conference in Beijing, Michael Raupach, a carbon-cycle scientist as well as a participant in the Global Carbon Project,...Supercapacitors Start a Revolution in Energy Storage Devices4 Oct, 2006 08:31 am When shopping for power sources to make Palm Pilots, iPods, and other ubiquitous personal electronic devices work, a capacitor is probably the last thing...Who discovered carbon nanotubes? - All you need to know about the discovery of carbon nanotubes.6 Sep, 2006 05:06 pm On reading articles in newspapers and science and technology magazines one gets that impression that Suomo Iijima, a scientist at NEC Japan,...Slippery Nanopipes15 Jun, 2006 10:32 am Imagine the amount of water that comes out of a fire hose attached to a hydrant. If you replace the fire hose with a regular garden hose,..."Carbon nanotubes might have a role in targeting drugs to tumour cells or delivery of drugs to the nervous system"30 May, 2006 01:55 pm Todd Pappas is co-author of a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on the ability of carbon nanotubes to carry... |