published May 19, 2009 and has No Comments
The international debate over what sort of post-Kyoto climate change agreement emerges often gets characterized as having China and the United States continually butting heads over who's going to go first and actually commit to reducing emissions significant amounts. There's also the impression ( borne out by act...
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published May 19, 2009 and has No Comments
That's fog, not pollution... photo: Ingrid Taylar via flickr Compared to sending goods long distances by truck or airplane is far less efficient than sending them by ship , and on the level of an individual product the emissions not that great, in the aggregate shipping is a major source of emissions —about 3% of global emissions in fact. ...
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published May 19, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Tim via flickr. They say “a week is a long time in politics.” And this was my first thought when Matthew asked me, a month ago, to consider a round-up of business and politics events from Australia. It may be a large sunburnt land blessed with many natural assets, but the so called Lucky Country might be using ...
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published May 19, 2009 and has No Comments
Whether for enhancing crop yields or storing massive amounts of carbon in the soil as part of a geoengineering plan, biochar certa...
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How To Make Biochar & Bio-Oil, Re:Char Demonstrates (Video)
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published May 16, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Wikipedia Yale Environment 360 currently has a piece which connects two subjects that TreeHugger has covered on a number of occasions, species getting de-listed as endangered species and climate change wiping out habitat . In this case it's the grizzly bear and pine trees dying in and around
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published May 14, 2009 and has No Comments
After Lloyd bring us the unfortunate/disturbing news yesterday that 76% of Americans don't know what cap-and-trade is , Hank Green over at EcoGeek got his video camera and blue screen out to explain it for eve...
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published May 14, 2009 and has No Comments
Pathfinder Linden via flickr. There's some good news/bad news on the melting Antarctic ice sheets being reported over at New Scientist . Though the West Antarctic ice sheet probably won't entirely collapse into the ocean all at once (that's the good news), the parts that are most likely to be released will cause some serious sea level rise:...
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published May 14, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: sektordua via flickr The effect that warming and ocean acidification will have on coral reefs will be devastating. At particular risk, a new report from World Wildlife Fund points out, is the Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia. Without strong action of constrain global temperature rise, coral in the region could be wiped out by 2100, leading to a ...
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published May 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Dr Rajendra Pachauri speaking at the Copenhagen Climate Congress in March. Photo: Lizette Kabré/Copenhagen Climate Congress On numerous occasions now I've said that while President Obama's greenhouse gas emissions reductions may be deep enough in the long run, they simply aren't adequate in the short term to give us a fighting chance to keep global temperature rise below the ...
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published May 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Soya crop grown for the biochar test. Photo: Dynamotive Energy Systems Since much of the recent talk about biochar has been about its potential for mitigating climate change as part geoengineering schemes , it's easy to forget that biochar also has benefits for increasing crop yields (indeed that's where the whole concept started). A new study done by
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