A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. Photo credit: Anyisa / Alamy. By Santiago Espinoza. Advantageous and encouraging.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

The NASA account continued that “any significant change in the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth can change the climate” though it stopped short of naming humans— and a few handfuls of large corporate emitters —as the culprit. But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the Arctic this has led to regional warming four times faster than the global average.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. Three years later, Tyndall showed that the CO 2 absorption occurs at infrared wavelengths.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Albedo The amount of solar radiation reflected from an object or surface, often expressed as a percentage. Carbon Dioxide A naturally occurring gas, and also a byproduct of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. compressed natural gas, solar, hydroelectric, wind).

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

16 TV’s O’Connor went around coral island to find origins of radiation (6). 4 Fossil-fuel preserver found in confused eco store (8). That’s one in the eye, archdeacon (4). 13 A-level physics comes in form that gives Saturn its place (5). 14 In taking the last of the Rolos, craving leads to rush of power (5). 19 Partial fan?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022.

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Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

The problem of the commercial utilization, for the production of power, of the energy of solar radiation, the wind and other intermittent natural sources is a double one,” he wrote. That’s because many countries are reducing their reliance on fossil fuels by boosting renewable-energy output, whether solar, wind or hydro.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Hari Chohan , nuclear radiation analyst, UK Atomic Energy Authority. Hari Chohan is a nuclear radiation analyst, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Hari Chohan is a nuclear radiation analyst, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Another relevant area in which many physicists work is nuclear energy, both fission and fusion.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ocean has already absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and 26% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Commercial shipping’s reliance on energy-dense but dirty fossil fuels generates approximately one billion metric tonnes of GHGs every year, as well as black carbon and soot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

While this would not necessarily lead to a large, rapid release of radioactivity into the environment, it could result in a situation similar to that of Fukushima today, where damaged cores in the basements of the containment buildings continue to release radiation into the groundwater. How rapidly could this sequence of events begin?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Researchers attribute 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from of fossil fuel emissions. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.) Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C 2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? C according to projections.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In June, a DEP inspection of a Bradford County shale gas well pad found radiation levels high enough in an onsite wastewater tank to require decontamination [ Read more here ].] 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov.

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Natural Gas 2017 Fossil Fuels Environmental Protection 78

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. Taking a national average of 25.1

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Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health. Now, eight schools in the city have solar panels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It results in this dangerous radioactive wastewater that the fossil fuel industry cannot recycle or dispose of in a benign manner. Using the wastewater for dust control and deicing of roads is another disposal method that introduces radiation and other dangerous elements into our environment.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system. billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The IPCC’s 5 th Assessment Report noted that, “Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion”. Figure SPM.3 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

All those fossil fuels thus have to be imported, and this has an impact on both prices and carbon footprint. . Regarding solar photovoltaic, as per the Global Solar Atlas, solar radiation in Puerto Rico is slightly superior to New York or Houston, TX, with 1,486 kWp per year. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

Continued fossil fuel energy dependence takes more money out of historically marginalized communities’ pockets, as the costs of heating, cooling, and gasoline are a larger portion of their household budgets (for low-income households, the national average energy burden for electricity and gas alone is 8.1

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

According to the United Nations Environment Programme. , “30-40% of all primary energy is used in buildings” contributing greatly to fossil fuel use and climate change, especially in the US, where 82 percent of people live in cities. Green-roofs buffer some stormwater, sequester carbon, and improve water quality. flood-prone regions.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Greenhouse gas : A group of gases known to be responsible for increasing the “greenhouse effect” - that is, gases that absorb infrared radiation and increase atmospheric density.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Could Be Reactivated -- Schuylkill Action Network Oct. 20 Stormwater Operation & Maintenance Workshop, Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 6, 2025 -- DEP Took Action On 812 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,733 Inspections; Responded To 1 Environmental Emergency Week Ending Aug.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. For other gases, the GWP depends on two different properties of the gas: how strongly it absorbs infrared radiation; and how long it stays in the atmosphere after it is emitted.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

JDB: Cities have dense concentrations of asphalt, cement and other surfaces that absorb solar heat during the day and radiate it back into the environment. It would be helpful to remind readers about the urban heat island effect and the related issue of micro-urban heat islands. Some cities and counties are doing that.

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2022

By pumping more carbon into the air, through the emission of fossil fuels, we are speeding up this cycle. This occurs because carbon dioxide is really good at capturing radiation and reflecting it back to the Earth, causing the Earth to warm up. This creates a cycle of carbon moving from the air, into plants and soil (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste DEP Sets Feb. 22 DEP Awards $39.6 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb. PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

. -- Better Path Coalition : On Demand: Brown Bag Briefing By Justi Nobel On His New Book Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret And the Grassroots Fight To Stop It NewsClips This Week: -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, (..)

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Changes from the early 19 th century that led to the Industrial Revolution were based, in part, on the advanced in engineering that was fueled by advances in physics. Finally, physics can be used to calculate the amount of energy produced by the processing and burning of biofuel just as it has for fossil fuels. Particle Physics.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick claims they did not claim fossil fuels were scarce in the 1970s, and points to a book published in 2003 where Holdren said, “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment…” But I make this exact point in Apocalypse Never. Why else use it?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

.: July 15 Creek Snorkeling For Students In The Upper Brodhead In Monroe County -- Manada Conservancy Aug. 26 Aquatic Bugs & Other Stream Life Kids Program , Camp Catherine, Hershey, Dauphin County -- Explore Jefferson County: PA Great Outdoors - Improvements To Gallagher Run -- Penn State Extension Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Says It’s A ‘Terrific Lie’ To Say It Is Responsible For Abandoning Thousands Of Wells; Industry To Change Definition So They Can Avoid Responsibility [PaEN] -- (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The deep earth is not just full of hydrocarbon vapors, but also full of radiation. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

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