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New CO2 emission maps to monitor climate change
2014-09-12 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: In what could help global policy makers to easily reach an agreement on strategies to reduce green house gas emissions, researchers have developed a new approach to reliably estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels. Called the "Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation System" or FFDAS, this new system was used to quantify 15 years of CO2 emissions, every hour, for the entire planet - down to the city scale. "With this system, we are taking a big step toward creating a global monitoring...
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States Suing to Stop CO2 Cuts Prep For Them Anyway
2014-09-11 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Sue the Obama Administration to derail its plan to slash carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, but prepare for the cuts anyway. That's the philosophy some of the 12 states suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the Clean Power Plan are taking even as they lay the groundwork for implementing the plan just in case it survives legal challenges, according to the director of a group representing 42 states' air quality regulators. "What we're seeing, not at the political...
'We are running out of time': CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere surprise scientists
2014-09-11 00:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere made the biggest jump last year since 1984, according to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, raising alarm bells about society's inaction on curbing global warming. "Far from falling, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually increased last year at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years," Michel Jarraud, the WMO Secretary General, said in a statement. "We must reverse this trend by cutting...
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UK calls on Australia, Canada and Japan to deliver ambitious CO2 cuts
2014-09-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The UK is pressing Japan, Canada and Australia to accept tough carbon cuts ahead of a proposed UN climate deal in 2015. A report outlining the UK governments climate strategy released today in London says officials are using bilateral contacts to encourage fellow developed countries to deliver new commitments. Over the past year leaders in Tokyo, Ottawa and Canberra have backed away from accepting tougher greenhouse gas cuts a situation the UK suggests is untenable. UK energy secretary Ed Davey...
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Sunlight boosts CO2 from thawing permafrost
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Arctic permafrost holds about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, making its ultimate fate a key factor in the severity and pace of climate change impacts. Now a study reports that old assumptions of how permafrost carbon breaks down in Arctic lakes and rivers may be wrong. Instead of bacteria being responsible for the conversion of carbon into carbon dioxide, the real culprit in many cases is sunlight, according to the research supported by the National Science Foundation. The findings...
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