We all learned back in grade school that CO2 is good for vegetation, and that plants need it to grow and construct their tissues. Might not the extra CO2 projected to be in the air by the end of the century therefore actually be beneficial for the planet’s vegetation?
Congress and the White House reach a deal for an auto bailout. Peugeot and Bosch team up to build a diesel hybrid. SEAT releases a car that emits only 98 grams of CO2. All that and more, plus John answers viewer questions in the “You Said It!” segment.
The Big Three face roadblocks before getting a bailout because Congress wants to see more concessions. Europe reaches a CO2 compromise. Nissan unveils a new, multi-functional commercial van concept. All that and more, plus a look at the new Renault Mégane.
The iPhone's amazing touchscreen and accelerometer based technology has revolutionized the way we use our phones, and programmers have created some amazing applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of the phone to change our lives in positive ways. Take the GreenMeter app for example... this app is designed to help you adjust your driving habits in order to reduce CO2 emissions and save you money on gas. The app uses the iPhone's accelerometer to measure forward acceleration, compute engine power, fuel economy, fuel cost, carbon footprint, and oil consumption. Just take a look at all the data on the app and see how adjusting your driving style changes the visual graphs for the better and worse. If you use the GreenMeter right, you can become a more environmentally friendly driver and save yourself some big money on gas. Greenmeter costs $5.99 to download, but since that's just a little more than the cost of a gallon of gas, it's well worth the small investment. I'm Elizabeth Chambers. ...
The iPhone's amazing touchscreen and accelerometer based technology has revolutionized the way we use our phones, and programmers have created some amazing applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of the phone to change our lives in positive ways. Take the GreenMeter app for example... this app is designed to help you adjust your driving habits in order to reduce CO2 emissions and save you money on gas. The app uses the iPhone's accelerometer to measure forward acceleration, compute engine power, fuel economy, fuel cost, carbon footprint, and oil consumption. Just take a look at all the data on the app and see how adjusting your driving style changes the visual graphs for the better and worse. If you use the GreenMeter right, you can become a more environmentally friendly driver and save yourself some big money on gas. Greenmeter costs $5.99 to download, but since that's just a little more than the cost of a gallon of gas, it's well worth the small investment. I'm Elizabeth Chambers. ...
The UAW hires its own Wall Street analyst to review any merger proposals. The EU postpones CO2 regulations until 2015. Hyundai joins forces with Microsoft. All that and more, plus a look at how Lincoln is trying to break out of the advertising clutter.
In his testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, NASA’s James Hansen stated “there is increasing realization that sea level rise this century may be measured in meters if we follow business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions.” Agreeing with Hansen, many people have been quick to jump on the CO2-induced global warming/rising sea level bandwagon. But how close to reality are the projections of a future sea level rise that is measured in meters?
This intensive, interdisciplinary course melds scientific and choreographic inquiry in pursuit of one of the most important topics facing society: climate change due to global warming. This course will include both classroom and laboratory sessions. Our laboratory will be Middletown’s landfill. The landfill, less than 2 miles from campus, dominates the landscape and flood plain of the north end of Middletown. It is a perfect laboratory within which to explore the effects of climate change on both wilderness and urban landscapes using the lenses of science and choreography. For example, the contents of the landfill afford the opportunity to explore the climatic consequences of consumerism, energy use, CO2 and methane production. With an emphasis on the body and its relationship with its environment, participants will have an opportunity to consider the multiple layers of histories, time, and memory layered within the landfill and the continuing impact of this changing environment on the body. ...
Cars.com's Lindsay Bjerregaard and Stephen Markley take you through the latest, coolest, weirdest car-related news they could dig up. Check out KickingTires.net for more about the 2008 Paris Auto Show, CO2 scrubbers, and rear window airbags.
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Climos is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology we are investigating is Ocean Iron Fertilization.
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Climos is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology we are investigating is Ocean Iron Fertilization.
Climos is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology we are investigating is Ocean Iron Fertilization.
www.climos.com
Climos is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology we are investigating is Ocean Iron Fertilization.
www.climos.com
Climos is exploring various processes for naturally removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The first technology we are investigating is Ocean Iron Fertilization.
Over a quarter-century ago Dr. Sherwood Idso stated in a small self-published book that if the air’s CO2 content continued to rise, it would enhance plant growth and water use efficiency to the point that semi-arid lands not then suitable for cultivation “could be brought into profitable production” and that “the deserts themselves could ‘blossom as the rose’.” How is this prediction holding up today?
Shortly after making landfall in late August of 2005 – and causing massive destruction and death along the Gulf Coast of the United States – several prominent scientists and a host of climate alarmists began claiming that hurricane Katrina was a product of CO2-induced global warming. In fact, some of them went so far as to suggest that the monstrous storm was moral payment for the sins of a carbon-polluting country hell-bent on maintaining its high per capita CO2 emissions via their unrepentant burning of fossil fuels. Is there any scientific truth to this claim?
Recently, it was reported that the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the last seven years exceeded even the IPCC's worst-case scenario. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have offered their support to global warming legislation in the past.
$200-400 billion. Thatâs what it would cost the US economy to go carbon neutral, according to a panel of greentech investment experts last week at the GoingGreen event in San Francisco.
Panelists:
* Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jeffries & Co
* Bob McCooey, SVP Global Capitol Markets, NASDAQ
* Josh Margolis, CEO, Cantor CO2e
* John Gimigliano, Partner, Energy & Sustainability Practice, KPMG
* Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter
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Are earth’s glaciers wasting away at an accelerating pace as a result of carbon dioxide-induced global warming? John McCain and Barack Obama believe they are, and they have plans for massive government programs to reverse the dreaded meltdown by reducing our country’s carbon dioxide or CO2 emissions. But are these actions needed?
Nel dicembre del 1997, nel corso della Convenzione Quadro sui Cambiamenti Climatici dell’ONU, a cui hanno partecipato più di ... 150 paesi, fu redatto il cosiddetto “protocollo di Kyoto”, un documento che impegna i paesi industrializzati e quelli in via di sviluppo ad una riduzione dell’emissione dei principali gas ad effetto serra. A tuttoggi, il documento non ha smesso di suscitare polemiche, sia per il rifiuto degli Stati Uniti a ratificare l’accordo, sia per le strumentalizzazioni politiche a cui il dibattito si presta. Il documentario prende spunto dalla riunione di Kyoto, per offrirci una panoramica del problema energetico attuale, della massiccia emissione di CO2, e delle possibili soluzioni a quella che sembra una catastrofe ambientale annunciata.
Nel dicembre del 1997, nel corso della Convenzione Quadro sui Cambiamenti Climatici dell’ONU, a cui hanno partecipato più di 150 paesi, fu redatto il cosiddetto “protocollo di Kyoto”, un documento che impegna i paesi industrializzati e quelli in via di sviluppo ad una riduzione dell’emissione dei principali gas ad effetto serra. A tuttoggi, il documento non ha smesso di suscitare polemiche, sia per il rifiuto degli Stati Uniti a ratificare l’accordo, sia per le strumentalizzazioni politiche a cui il dibattito si presta. Il documentario prende spunto dalla riunione di Kyoto, per offrirci una panoramica del problema energetico attuale, della massiccia emissione di CO2, e delle possibili soluzioni a quella che sembra una catastrofe ambientale annunciata.
Carbon Sciences,of Santa Barbara California, claims to have a method to convert atmospheric CO2 into useful products, in a cost and energy effective manner!
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PROVIDENCE, RI (July 25,2008) Former Soviet submarine Juliett 484 submerges to surface after sitting on the bottom of the Providence River for over a year. U.S. Navy and Army Divers along with Federal, State, and Local Authorities participate in a joint service operation to raise the sunken former Soviet submarine Juliett 484, at Collier Point Park in Providence, RI. Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit TWO Company TWO ONE (MDS CO 2-1), US Army Dive Company and NAVSEA OOC Support Unit prepare to salvage the former Soviet submarine that sank at her mooring point in about 30 feet of water during a nor’easter, which struck Providence in April of 2007. This training exercise is part of the DoD’s Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program. Through IRT, military divers receive training by taking part of real-world, community-based projects. IRT and civil-military projects improve military readiness and help rebuild America. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Lippman/Released)
PROVIDENCE, RI (July 25,2008) Former Soviet submarine Juliett 484 submerges to surface after sitting on the bottom of the Providence River for over a year. U.S. Navy and Army Divers along with Federal, State, and Local Authorities participate in a joint service operation to raise the sunken former Soviet submarine Juliett 484, at Collier Point Park in Providence, RI. Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit TWO Company TWO ONE (MDS CO 2-1), US Army Dive Company and NAVSEA OOC Support Unit prepare to salvage the former Soviet submarine that sank at her mooring point in about 30 feet of water during a nor’easter, which struck Providence in April of 2007. This training exercise is part of the DoD’s Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program. Through IRT, military divers receive training by taking part of real-world, community-based projects. IRT and civil-military projects improve military readiness and help rebuild America. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Lippman/Released)
PROVIDENCE, RI (July 25,2008) Former Soviet submarine Juliett 484 submerges to surface after sitting on the bottom of the Providence River for over a year. U.S. Navy and Army Divers along with Federal, State, and Local Authorities participate in a joint service operation to raise the sunken former Soviet submarine Juliett 484, at Collier Point Park in Providence, RI. Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit TWO Company TWO ONE (MDS CO 2-1), US Army Dive Company and NAVSEA OOC Support Unit prepare to salvage the former Soviet submarine that sank at her mooring point in about 30 feet of water during a nor’easter, which struck Providence in April of 2007. This training exercise is part of the DoD’s Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program. Through IRT, military divers receive training by taking part of real-world, community-based projects. IRT and civil-military projects improve military readiness and help rebuild America. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Lippman/Released)
The Ford Fiesta ECOnetic becomes the most fuel efficient 5 seater family car in the UK with CO2 emissions under 100g/km. Aerodynamic body styling, lowered suspension and low resistance tyres all help to achieve ultra low CO2 emissions.
Hat die weltweite Erdölförderung bereits ihren Höhepunkt erreicht?
Wie lange kann die Menschheit ihr Überleben noch mit Erdöl sichern?
Kann die Klimaerwärmung noch gestoppt werden? “Das Erd(öl)klima”
erforscht diese und viele andere Fragen, die fast jeden Aspekt unseres
Lebens betreffen.
Durch die Erdölverbrennung werden jährlich weltweit gigantische Mengen des
Treibhausgases CO2 freigesetzt. Der Film spannt den Bogen von der
Entstehung des fossilen Energieträgers im Lauf der vergangenen 160
Millionen Jahre bis zu den Auswirkungen des Erdölzeitalters auf das
künftige Klima unseres Planeten. “Crude” – so der Originaltitel der
australischen Produktion von Richard Smith – hat weltweit Aufsehen
erregt und wurde auf der internationalen Festivaltour mit höchsten
Auszeichnungen bedacht.
4/7/08 - UNU Symposium on innovation and climate change held in Tokyo, the UNU Media Studio filmed interviews with some of the world's leading climate science and policy experts including James E. Hansen, Gwyn Prins, David Steven, Alex Evans, Shuzo Nishioka, and Ted Nordhaus.
We asked them what they would say to the G8 leaders gathering in Hokkaido next week. This video contains their messages.
DR. JAMES E. HANSEN:
If I could speak with leaders at the G8 meeting, I would tell them that the strategy of trying to identify a target for reducing CO2 emissions is doomed to failure. You need to look at the basic facts, the basic physics of the problem. The most important thing is for them to recognise the key role of coal, and unless we have a moratorium and phase-out of coal â except where the CO2 is captured â then we're not going to be able to solve the problem.