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New Study Shows Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed

Inside Climate News

The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows.

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Carbon dioxide chiller provides ample cold for dairy and replaces propane heat for hot water

Environmental News Bits

With the approaching HFC phasedown, the demand for environmentally friendly cooling systems is driving chiller manufacturers to innovate. Washington-based Pro-Refrigeration, Inc.,

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This Coca-Cola bottler will capture carbon dioxide to put the fizz in its drinks

Environmental News Bits

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a “quadgeneration” system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Inside Climate News

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Capturing carbon one cooling tower at a time

Environmental News Bits

There are about two million cooling towers across the US. Noya plans to use existing towers to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read the full story at Who What Why. Read more →

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.