Home illustrates
 

Keywords :   


Tag: illustrates

Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend

2013-05-11 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The old saying that ''what goes up must come down'' doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a monitoring site that sets the world's benchmark. It's a symbolic mark that scientists and environmentalists have been anticipating for years. While this week's number has garnered all sorts of attention, it is just a daily reading in the month when the chief greenhouse...

Tags: record experts trend illustrates

 

Exxon's 22-Foot Rupture Illustrates Tremendous Operating Pressure of Oil Pipelines

2013-04-12 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: The rupture in the ExxonMobil pipeline that sent a river of oil through a suburban neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. is now known to be 22 feet long and 2 inches wide [3]. That's almost four times larger than the six-foot pipeline tear that sent more than one million gallons of Canadian dilbit into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the worst accident of its kind in U.S. history. The size and speed of the release through a long opening, thin as a mail slot, shines a spotlight on just how quickly...

Tags: operating pressure oil illustrates

 

Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4]