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Scientists: Climate change will create hundreds of millions of new homeless people
It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate changeexpert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere…
U.S. monitors: Carbon dioxide in atmosphere hits historic high
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has broken above 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced Friday, indicating that climate change has reached a new high. The data showing that the average C02 was 400.03 as of May 9 was posted…
How the burning of fossil fuels was linked to a warming world in 1938
Seventy-five years ago this month an amateur weather-watcher from West Sussex published a landmark paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society directly linking the burning of fossil fuels to the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. Guy Callendar was a successful steam engineer by trade, but in his…
French environmental scheme targets farting cows
A French cattle feed company on Tuesday unveiled a novel form of carbon credits aimed at incentivising farmers to stop cows from emitting climate-changing farts. Grass-chewing farm animals are an often-overlooked contributor to global warming, as their emissions are of methane, a gas that is two dozen times more efficient…
Scientists say carbon taxes favor wealthy countries’ consumers over poor countries’ producers
Calls for carbon taxes to tackle global warming often dodge the complexity of this issue, with the risk that hasty action could damage the world economy and fuel the greenhouse-gas problem, experts warned on Sunday. Carbon taxes — levies that would be imposed on goods according to the carbon dioxide…
Thawing permafrost frees millions of tons of carbon: study
PARIS — A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw parts of its coastline, a study warned Wednesday. The carbon, a potential source of Earth-warming CO2, has lain frozen along the…
Could novel technique to curb global warming also trigger earthquakes?
Could novel technique to curb global warming also trigger earthquakes? (via The Christian Science Monitor) Capturing carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions and pumping it deep underground may not be as useful a tool for dealing with rising greenhouse-gas levels as advocates suggest, according to a new analysis. The reason: Rising…
New research proves rising carbon dioxide levels led to climate change before
A scientific conundrum that has puzzled climate experts for years may have been solved with the publication of research showing how an increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere contributed to rising temperatures millions of years ago. The paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, has wide-ranging implications…
Study blames obesity epidemic on rising CO2 levels
The question of whether carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency has been a political football for the past decade. In 1998, the Clinton administration decided that it was, but in 2003, the Bush administration reversed this policy.…
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