A few incorrect (though fairly unimportant) claims in the meme here: Cow poop creates biodiversity. Wrong. See link. The lifecycle of grass takes CO2 out of the air and replaces it with oxygen. Throughout a 24-hour cycle, the intakes and …
Tag: Greenhouse gas
Tipping Points in Climate Change
A term popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2000 best seller, a tipping point is a moment at which linear, predictable change of a certain phenomenon achieves critical mass and becomes runaway exponential change. Cell phone ownership and the adoption …
From Guest Blogger Emily: The Rewards of Car Recycling
Over the recent years governments and environment conserving agencies have tried to emphasize the need to recycle used material. The automobile industry has not been left behind as recycle of vehicles and vehicle parts has far reaching environmental benefits. Recycled …
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Geo-engineering: Getting It Right Is a Huge Challenge; Getting It Wrong Is Lethal
Here’s an article that points out why geo-engineering, i.e., attempts to control the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere by injecting chemicals into it, is a challenge fraught with problems. Tell me about it. If there were unintended consequences associated with filling …
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A Prairie Home Companion and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In the four-and-a-half years I’ve been writing these posts, I don’t think I’ve referred to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” even once. Shame on me. I hope readers will take a few minutes and listen to last night’s performance …
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EmpowerTheOcean.com Reports on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Writing for a website I helped to create, EmpowerTheOcean, Emma Websdale notes, “This week’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, published by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), includes data showing that greenhouse gas emissions are on an upward and accelerating trend.” She …
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The Price of Carbon is Zero
Here’s a good article on the history of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Why has the goal of preventing the exhaust from the burning of fossil fuels from entering the atmosphere been so elusive? Not to give anything away, but …
A Clean Energy Future Is Inevitable
It’s always great to come across people who “get it.” The authors of this article begin their piece: While a clean energy future is inevitable, questions remain about how quickly we will get there. Exactly. I wish I had a dollar …
From British Guest Blogger Indigo Swan – Energy Sustainability in Business
‘Carbon footprint’ is the undisputed energy related buzzword of the past 10 years, and businesses face a huge responsibility, with pressure from both external and internal forces to try and minimise their impact on the environment, through reducing their carbon …
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More on Biofuels Breakthrough
Here’s a presentation for those who want to know more about the breakthrough in biofuels I wrote about earlier today, and who understand things like: “Pyruvate decarboxylase catalyzes the non-oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate to produce acetaldehyde.” Personally, I function better …
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