A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

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New Scientist

MARCH 2, 2022

Remove a billion tonnes of methane from the air and we could cool Earth by 0.2°C, C, extending the window of opportunity to remove carbon dioxide before it is too late

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. Today’s models can more explicitly represent the behaviour of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room. This is known as committed warming.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. That’s easy to check: if that were the case, then cooling in the area would be linked to increased heat loss at the surface. From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These companies’ efforts show that it is possible to keep food cool while protecting our Earth’s ozone layer and climate system by setting and achieving ambitious goals year after year.” GreenChill Partners commit to reducing refrigerant emissions and decreasing their impact on the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? They can grow to be up to more than 200 feet in length.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9%

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

They say they have thus far launched two small weather balloons, which each released a few grams of sulfur dioxide gas (SO 2 ) in the stratosphere. First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It is mostly made up of methane which is even worse than carbon dioxide. They also gave testimony about how their heat pump has saved them thousands of dollars in heating and cooling bills in the last year and vouched for its efficiency during extreme cold weather. Burning fossil fuels is a main contributor to climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Whether we’re turning down the AC to cool off, or turning up the heat to get cozy, we use a lot of energy. Perhaps the most notable way reducing energy helps the environment is by decreasing harmful byproducts, such as carbon dioxide, from being released by the power plants that produce our electricity.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

EPA tells us succinctly, Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. Surprising to some, carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. emission trends.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! A new report explains how the provincial government can do just that, while also creating jobs and growing the economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

She knows methane emissions have as much as 80 times the heat-trapping effect over a 20-year period as carbon dioxide. Rather than using treated wastewater to cool the steam the Allen plant uses to make electricity, as other plants have done, the TVA continues to tap into the source of Memphis’s drinking water.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

It transports warm surface water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, where it cools down and sinks to deeper layers. The AMOC also plays a vital role in regulating the global climate by controlling the distribution of heat and carbon dioxide.

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Physics World

MARCH 29, 2022

The team found that oxygen and water were emitted when the surface of the comet was warm, but that the association between water and oxygen went away as the surface cooled. Instead, oxygen is linked with carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide during the cold season. Staggered emission.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

So far the WEIM has been very successful, reducing global warming emissions by nearly 800,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and saving participants $3.4 billion dollars since the market began.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Erie District avoided over 8,000 metric tons of CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalent] emissions in 2020, an amount equal to the emissions of over 740 homes. In many cases, an entire building needs to be heated or cooled even if only a portion of the building is occupied. percent in 2019. This wastes energy.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

W/m 2 , and the net forcing (including cooling impacts of aerosols and natural changes) is 2.7±0.8 Shine, "Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative forcing", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. W/m 2 since the pre-industrial ( IPCC AR6 Chapter 7 ).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Development often means the destruction of forests that offer essential climate mitigation services like storing carbon, cooling the atmosphere, soaking up floodwaters after heavy rainfall, filtering drinking water, absorbing carbon dioxide, and generating oxygen.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 31, 2022

While natural grass absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, artificial turf does the opposite by releasing CO2, methane, and a variety of chemicals. And while natural grass has a cooling effect, artificial turf absorbs heat and can become dangerously hot. that remain on the surface. Image by Peter Burdon/Unsplash.com.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Direct emissions are produced from residential and commercial activities in a variety of ways: Combustion of natural gas and petroleum products for heating including water heating and cooking needs emits carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2022

.” Disclosure of internal carbon price : Under the proposed rule, registrants would be required to disclose any carbon price used internally. emissions form the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat, or cooling that is consumed by operations owned or controlled by [the] registrant.”

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year. What about the cost of energy for heating and cooling? It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What they showed are the distinct fingerprints of two kinds of forcing; increasing solar activity which warms all parts of the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide increases which warm the surface and troposphere, but cool the stratosphere and above. 241-259, 1967. CO;2">[link] 2.0.CO;2. 25-29, 1970. Manabe, and R.J. 215-218, 1993.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

They also provide cooling shade which helps heat-sensitive aquatic organisms survive (such as brook trout), and control algal growth by blocking sunlight. Forests function as a “carbon sink”, removing carbon from the air as they grow, storing the carbon in their wood, the soil or other plant matter.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. Sullivan Human Services Center in Philadelphia. Energy efficiency drives positive impacts across our lives,” said Secretary McDonnell.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. metric tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita per year, the typical carbon footprint of an average Indian is a fraction of that of an average American (14.2 Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Since 2004, ARRI has reforested thousands of acres of reclaimed coal mined land throughout Appalachia to restore the areas to their natural appearance while gaining the many benefits the newly planted trees seedlings will provide, such as removing carbon dioxide from the air and helping to conserve water resources.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On hunting grounds, those same trees improve water quality by reducing polluted runoff, sequestering carbon dioxide, and providing food and habitat for wildlife. We were trying to increase our hunting capacity and wildlife and thought it would be cool if we had 20 acres of land that we could hunt.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Moreover, most efficiency improvements, such as upgrades in lighting, insulation, doors and windows, or heating and cooling systems, can be performed by local workforce, supporting jobs for contractors and suppliers within the region. billion annually. This is especially true for rural or exurban areas.

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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

UNDO ’s focus on enhanced rock weathering developed from the realization that conventional strategies, like mass tree planting, could not alone counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even ubiquitous tree planting would leave us with an excess of carbon dioxide.’ It is also common.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )?

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