Tag: greenhouse gases
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October 21, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
Aviation, both civil and military, together with the space industry generates an enormous amount of greenhouse gases, due to the fossil fuels burned by the planes, the jets, the missiles and rockets that . . .
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July 30, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
Everyone knows about Ethanol, the renewable alternative to oil. Just a few years ago, Ethanol was primarily used kitchen oil and was only used by and well-known to environmentalists. The . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . .
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February 14, 2008 03:06 AM EST --
Shipping emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) are underestimated by as much as three times, according to the British daily Guardian, which quotes a new study that shows that annual emissions from the . . .
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November 24, 2009 08:27 PM EST --
With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest. (Credit: iStockphoto) . . .
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June 22, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
Calls for global cooperation in tackling climate change are on the rise as a new study identifies China as the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases.
Environmental groups are warning that . . .
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November 11, 2009 10:10 PM EST --
Ever since I was a kid I've enjoyed reading about science. In reading popular science works I developed an appreciation not only for the contemporary state of science but also for its history. Thus . . .
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September 26, 2006 01:11 PM EDT --
The most important film of our lifetime, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, spells out in detail how unchecked corporate greed is damaging the planet and creating a disaster for our kids and grandkids. The article . . .
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December 11, 2006 02:00 PM EST --
Hmm...
Meet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.
A United Nations report has identified the world’s rapidly growing . . .
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January 04, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Excerpted from a January 4 Reuters article by Deborah Zabarenko:
Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending US$16 million on groups . . .
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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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April 08, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 5 (OneWorld) - Amid new calls for the resignation of George W. Bush's top environment official, 12 states and 11 non-profit groups went to court this week accusing the Bush . . .
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April 09, 2009 01:15 AM EDT --
Imagine if you will what would happen if the manmade (anthropogenic) global warming theory turned out to be false. It would be a political and economic disaster for proponents of the theory. . . .
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July 13, 2007 06:09 PM EDT --
I heard that when making Swiss Cheese, gases are released from the bacteria that make up the culture used to make the cheese, primarily Carbon Dioxide gas. Could Swiss Cheese be responsible for . . .
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March 04, 2008 12:56 PM EST --
Aaron Glantz
OneWorld US
Tue., Mar. 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 4 (OneWorld) - The vast majority of scientists and other specialists at the . . .
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April 18, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
The Obama administration opened the way to regulating U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on Friday by declaring climate-warming pollution a danger to human health and welfare, in a sharp policy shift from . . .
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June 11, 2009 04:28 PM EDT --
Japan sets 'weak' climate target
Japan has announced a target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 15% over the next 11 years - a figure derided by environmentalists as "appalling".
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June 08, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
As policymakers weigh their options for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, they hope to find solutions that allow us to have our cake and eat it too. Some hold out hope that . . .
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June 15, 2009 07:23 PM EDT --
2,000 rally at an EPA hearing
It’s a rare day when corporate execs from Nike and Starbucks, EPA administrators, state politicians, solar power businesses, anti-poverty advocates, and moms . . .
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November 12, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
Proponents of sustainable agriculture are beginning to argue that our habits of factory farming and skyrocketing international food trade are responsible for an increasing slice of global warming. . . .
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