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Fixing palm oils other climate threat
2014-03-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: Standing beside a palm oil wastewater lagoon can promote a vague sense of unease. The murky brown surface appears more molten than aqueous, blanketed in roiling bubbles that suggest the imminent emergence of a mythical beast. Plus, it stinks. Thousands of these lagoons are spread across the tropics, and the number is growing steadily. Should you find yourself beside one, the bubbles you will see are indeed the product of subsurface life. But its not a hidden monster. Instead, untold trillions...
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Fixing climate not so easy
2013-08-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: In the quest to head off rising global temperatures, some scientists have argued for steep curbs in how much soot and methane are released into the air. But a new study suggests that targeting such emissions in the next couple of decades may make much less of a dent than previously thought. While carbon dioxide emissions get much of the press when it comes to global climate change, methane and soot are also big culprits. Methane, when assessed over the course of a century, warms the planet about...
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Fixing the climate with science: What could possibly go wrong?
2013-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: As you squeegee out your basement, replace your blown-off roof tiles, bury your heat-withered tomato crop and think about moving to a house on higher ground, you will be forgiven if you want to step out onto the street, tilt your head toward those odd-shaped clouds massing on the horizon, and scream, Fix it! And that might be a reasonable request. The weather is broken. To some degree, this is because we broke it: While it is foolish to link any individual extreme-weather event to the larger climate,...
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Study: Fixing climate change will take new energy tools
2013-01-08 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: What will it take to fix climate change? The world will need new technologies that produce energy without emitting greenhouse gases, scientists argue in a study to be published Wednesday. The research looks at a popular 2004 approach put forward by two Princeton scientists who said the increase in carbon dioxide emissions could be stopped by dividing the task into seven "slices," or wedges, that use existing technologies. For example, one wedge called for doubling the use of nuclear energy and another...
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