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North Dakota gas flaring doubles, pumping CO2 into air
2014-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Fracking for crude oil is big business in North Dakota, but with that oil is coming a steadily increasing amount of wasted natural gas that is burned off, releasing large amounts of climate change-driving carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new U.S. Energy Information Administration data. The Bakken shale of North Dakota is one of America's largest sources of crude oil. It's produced by drilling and then hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shale formations deep underground. But the...
CO2 on Path to Cross 400 ppm Threshold for a Month
2014-03-18 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Last year, atmospheric carbon dioxide briefly crossed 400 parts per million for the first time in human history. However, it didn't cross that threshold until mid-May. This year's first 400 ppm reading came a full two months earlier this past week and the seeming inexorable upward march is likely to race past another milestone next month. "We're already seeing values over 400. Probably we'll see values dwelling over 400 in April and May. It's just a matter of time before it stays over 400 forever,'...
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Tokyo to reach CO2 targets without its carbon trading scheme
2014-03-15 17:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Tokyo will meet carbon reduction targets without the need to use carbon credits in its emissions trading scheme, mainly as a result of increased energy efficiency after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster threatened a crunch in power supply. Japans capital, one of the worlds largest cities, became the first urban area in Asia to impose emissions caps and carbon trading at the start of the decade, blazing a trail for other cities that are using the market to control climate-changing gases. But...
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Tokyo cuts CO2 emissions but hoards credits
2014-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: About four years after Asia`s first mandatory greenhouse gas emissions-reduction scheme was launched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, businesses in the capital have succeeded in drastically cutting carbon dioxide emissions without depending on emissions credit trading. Due mainly to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, which reduced utilities` electricity supplies and triggered legal curbs on power consumption by large-lot customers that year, Tokyo offices and factories covered by the...
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Audi says traffic light information system production ready; potential for 15% reduction in CO2 emissions
2014-03-10 15:30:34| Green Car Congress
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