A Greener Life
JUNE 3, 2022
If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. 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.
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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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. They aren’t trying to end fossil fuels.
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.
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. They continue to cater to the best interests of the fossil fuel industry,” she says. Muse isn’t buying it. In Muse’s mind, there’s a clear winner in the TVA’s decision to double down on gas.
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. Fluorocarbons Carbon-fluorine compounds that often contain other elements such as hydrogen, chlorine, or bromine.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 27, 2023
Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.
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