Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall in 2009 – Past Decade Still Sees Rapid Emissions Growth
Amy Heinzerling
In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly 9 percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down from a high of 8.5 billion tons of carbon in 2008 to 8.4 billion tons in 2009. Yet this drop follows a decade of rapid growth: over the 10 previous years, global CO2 emissions rose by an average of 2.5 percent a year—nearly four times as fast as in the 1990s. Increasing temperatures and the resulting melting ice sheets and rising sea levels demonstrate the destructive effects of the carbon accumulating in the atmosphere.
Emissions in [...]
Climate Round Up
Adventures in climate change from around the web.
Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has resigned after four years of service. Who will replace him and what does it mean for international negotiations?
Voices of reason are finally starting to push back against the small but vocal group of climate skeptics. Logic can be refreshing every now and then, no?
At the TED Conference, David Cameron, the leader of the conservative party talked about how your electric bill should look. Maybe we should also try what the Swedes are doing with their food packaging, too.
Yale’s Project on Climate Change released a new study gauging Americans’ concerns about climate change. Good [...]
Climate Change– and lots of snow…
So the weather has been cold.
So there is no climate change, no global warming? Come on….
The past week or so have been very hard on the Midwest and mid Atlantic parts of our nation. And not surprisingly there are folk running (or sliding) around ready to declare an end to the discussion on climate change.
Well, don’t get your hopes up. Climate change is complex and will lead to annual ups and downs in snow, rain, heat, and so on (let alone the normal complex ups and downs of climate and weather). Just as those of us who believe that we need to stop pumping heat trapping [...]
Permafrost is Receding. Fast.
Sorry to follow up the bad news about the Florida Panther (the animal, not the team. Sorry hockey fans.) with some bad news about permafrost. Canadian researchers took a break from watching the Olympics to publish a study showing that southernmost limit of permafrost has moved 130km north over the past 50 years.
Not only is the recession of permafrost bad for local ecosystems, but it also has the potential to exacerbate climate change. Permafrost keeps methane locked up in ice and soil. If it melts, though, it releases that methane into the atmosphere. The kicker? Methane is a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than CO2.
Interestingly, the researchers did their [...]
Climate Round Up
Adventures in climate change from around the web.
Absolutely fantastic article by Andrew Revkin that highlights the limits of uncertainty in the debate about climate change. Couldn’t say it better myself. So I won’t.
You may have already seen it, but Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters has a must-read post on the whole Mid-Atlantic Snowpocalyse thing in a changing world. Advice: invest in a better shovel.
Check it out! Climate.gov is the best place to get information on climate change (unless we elect James Inhofe president).
US Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to leave the pika out in the cold, refusing to list them under the Endangered Species Act. And seriously, leaving them out [...]
Polar Representatives
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Despite the depressing situation with the polar ice caps and polar bears in general, this one made me chuckle a little.
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Boy things are really heating up!
Recycling has become the means to saving our planet. Keeping our planet as clean as possible and preserving our precious nature is our responsibility. We have to try to fix or reduce the damage we’ve done; the damage we are doing. If not, we face a heap of consequences.
Global warming is one of the consequences we face. It is starting to hit our planet and affect it in a major way. With the production of certain products we are polluting our air. Producing certain products from scratch can release serious amounts of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. For example, producing new aluminum creates 95% more carbon dioxide than recycling old [...]
CO2 Emissions and Global Warming
Who leads the world in CO2 emissions?
There is much talk on the news via television, radio, and computers that warn us about Global warming. Some people believe that Global warming is a real problem while others believe it is not. There is another divide when we look at those who believe Global warming is real and is a major problem. Some argure that Mother Nature has caused Global warming while others believe humans play a major role in the process. According to scientist Svante Arrhenius, “An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere undoubtedly produces a rise in temperature at ground level…” According to Arrhenius, CO2 is a factor when the [...]
What Leads To Uncertain Rains And Global Warming
Today everybody is effected by global warming and I will talk here about some of the problems it creates in eco-system in this post. The first thing arise in ones mind what leads to global warming. Many guys knows the answer but not have clear and confirmed knowledge about the reasons of global warming besides most of uneducated and ignorant backward population of this globe is just fighting to fend for their daily two time foods needs it is unjust to expect them to known and do something for it as we the advanced and educated guys have created and aggravating this problem even further.
Today, I will talk and deliberate [...]