Tag: carbon dioxide
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How Dirty Is Your Electricity?
Prime: prime Subtitle: Here’s a look at the carbon intensity of electricity by state and region Images: Lately I’ve been working on my presentation for the 10th anniversary of the North American Passive House Conference. It’s on the global warming impact of insulation, a followup to my latest article about Alex Wilson’s work on that…
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Geographers Identify Huge Sources of CO2 Buried in Soil of the Great Plains
Geographers have found a new factor in the carbon cycle and a new potential source of greenhouse gas …
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Coral Reefs Face Point of No Return
There would be a point at which the resilience and capacity to adapt that must be inherent in corals would be overwhelmed. The conclusion is a bleak one.
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Rowers’ Epic Journey Reveals How Climate Change Is Transforming the Arctic
Four modern day explorers from Vancouver, BC, began a world first expedition on July 1, to row the 3,000 kilometer Northwest Passage in a specially commissioned human-powered boat—a feat only possible now due to the melting ice in the Arctic …
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President Obama, Fracking is Part of the Climate Change Problem, Not Solution
The recent shale gas boom is made possible by hydraulic fracturing. And at the same time shale gas’ methane leakage problem is increasing climate change, this boom is …