global warming solutions

Pulling CO2 From Atmosphere Technically Possible But Unfeasibly, Wildly Expensive

May 10, 2011

Another viewpoint on how scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere–as opposed to at the point of generation at power plants or (better yet) reducing emissions in the first place–is a hugely expensive undertaking: A new study by the American Physical Societ…

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Injecting Aerosols Into Atmosphere to Slow Global Warming Environmentally & Economically Risky

April 18, 2011

Another report on another geoengineering method that is likely too risky to try and utterly not cost-effective: Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to slow warming (which would do absolutely nothing about ocean acidification, by the way).

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Both India & China Enacting Carbon Trading Programs

April 11, 2011

A laborer is seen working at a deisel powered crusher infont of a wind turbine. This is a 17.5 MW wind project, consisting of eighteen wind farm sites in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. The eighteen sites have be…

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House Votes Yes For Polluters, No To A Clean Environment For The American People

April 8, 2011

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The Senate voted against this yesterday: As expected, the House of Representatives voted yesterday (255-172) to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act–something which was dec…

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Scrap Subsidies For Fossil Fuels & Support Renewables, CCS to Cut Emissions: IEA

April 7, 2011

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The latest report from the International Energy Agency on renewable energy is out and in many ways it’s a hard splash of cold water across the face. Among many things, the

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Whitening Clouds To Stop Climate Change Might Actually Increase Warming

April 6, 2011

One of the more invasive geoengineering methods that’s been proposed to avert global warming is spraying clouds with seawater to whiten them, reflecting solar radiation. New research presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting urges caution …

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World’s Poor Nations Plan On Combatting Climate Change, While Congress Denies It’s Happening

March 22, 2011

As Congress votes to deny the existence of climate change is happening and Europe refuses to increase its emission reduction commitment, the United Nations has released a summary of what the poorer countries and emerging economies of the world plan o…

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Climate Change Emergency: Time to Slam on the Brakes

March 11, 2011

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The following is a guest post from Skeptical Science by James Wight

Global warming is an increasingly urgent problem. The urgency isn’t obvious because a large amount of warming is being delayed. But some of the l…

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China Places Low-Carbon Growth, Green Development & Ecological Security At Front of Next Five-Year Plan

March 9, 2011

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One quarter of its wind power may not be actually connected to the grid, but that doesn’t mean China’s green ambitions aren’t genuine–at least as the nation’s twelfth five-year plan has it. China Dialogue points ou…

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A Real-World Example of Carbon Pricing Benefits Outweighing Costs

March 4, 2011

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The following is guest post from Skeptical Science by Dana Nuccitelli.

The key obstacle to putting a price on carbon emissions in the USA is the fairly widespread myth that it will result in ballooning energy bills and cr…

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