Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Henry Fountain, The New York Times–Natural events can upset a forest’s carbon calculus. By killing trees by the thousands, widespread insect infestations can do the same thing. But rarely have insect blights been considered when determining a forest’s carbon balance.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters , ENN.com–Greece has been suspended from U.N. carbon trading in an unprecedented punishment for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, officials said on Tuesday.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The European Commission’s biggest-ever delegation to China heads for Beijing this week, hoping to progress from words to action on China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions and its tense trade ties with Europe. China has shot to the top of the EU’s priorities after the country’s sudden emergence as a global economic power.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol is sometimes considered a bust because it doesn’t include the US, yet recent statistics from Det Norske Veritas, the certifying agency of Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the developing world, are heartening Earth Day news.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
In July 2007 the church accepted an offer by a Hungarian start-up company to plant trees in Hungary to offset the carbon footprint of Vatican City—the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by the tiny state.
By NunoXEI • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Environmental battles over the siting and expansion of airports are as old as the air travel industry itself, but only in recent years have the airlines themselves been under pressure to go green. Air pollution from commercial jets is a growing concern among scientists, as is air travel’s role in climate change because of the more acute warming effect of emissions when they are disbursed so much closer to the upper atmosphere.
By NunoXEI • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Julie Steenhuysen, ENN–A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth’s stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said.
By NunoXEI • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Rebecca Sato, The Daily Galaxy–Evidence for abrupt climate change is readily found in ice cores taken from Greenland and Rebecca Antarctica. Could something like this happen again? It sure could, and because the changes can happen all within one decade—we might not even see it coming.
By NunoXEI • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Britain’s dragonflies, which date back to the dinosaurs but are increasingly threatened by habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, are to be the subject of a major national survey.
The five-year project, to be launched on Thursday, will result in a new atlas of the 39 species of dragonfly and damselfly that breed in Britain [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted Friday that an international deadlock over how to deal with global warming will end once President Bush leaves office, while a leading expert warned of dire consequences if urgent action is not taken.
Schwarzenegger spoke at a conference at Yale University in which 18 states pledged to take action on climate [...]
