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Scientists have long warned that accelerating climate change could lead to more wildfires around the globe, and that those wildfires would release more carbon dioxide … which would accelerate climate change. And that appears to be the case in Australia, where recent fires have — according to Reuters’ Planet Ark — released “millions
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IBM is offering customers a new service that can assess their organisations’ energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions at any level, enabling them to better identify areas for improvement. The Strategic Carbon Management programme could help companies cut their overall carbon emissions by as much as 50 percent, according to
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The global climate changes wrought by rising carbon dioxide emissions are now too late to stop and will linger for more than 1,000 years, according to a new study by researchers in the US and Europe. “Our study convinced us that current choices regarding carbon dioxide emissions will have
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Couldn’t wade through all the cleantech headlines yesterday? Following are some of the stories you might have missed: * In yet another sign of an environmental and scientific turnaround in Washington, DC, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding off its approval of a new coal-fired power plant in
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Following are some of the top headlines yesterday from the world of cleantech: * Technology developed at the University of Chicago might soon land in the marketplace in the form of a new and more efficient plastic solar cell for portable electronics. Solarmer Energy Inc. says it expects to have a
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California officials are hoping the new atmosphere in Washington, DC, will mean a renewed opportunity for them to regulate greenhouse gases in the state’s atmosphere. On Wednesday, Mary Nichols, chairman of California’s Air Resources Board (ARB), asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider a decision that
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On his first full day as president of the US, Barack Obama is receiving some climate change advice from the Sustainable Energy Network: Start tackling the problem today. A loose affiliation of 600-plus companies, groups and individuals, the Sustainable Energy Network outlined its recommendations for immediate action in a press
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More head-spinning updates on the “Google searches are melting the planet” brouhaha: the research that reportedly found two Google searches produce as much carbon dioxide as heating up a pot of tea is being refuted not only by Google but by … the researcher himself. The Guardian reports today that Harvard
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While news stories abound about IT’s growing environmental footprint, geeks everywhere are abuzz today about a Google-centered eco-controversy. The brouhaha centers on one query: how much carbon dioxide does your typical Google search generate? According to Harvard University Alex Wissner-Gross, each Google search is responsible for 7 grams of
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James Hansen, one of the US’s leading climate scientists, says he plans to send a letter this week urging President-elect Barack Obama to fight global warming with a carbon tax rather than a cap-and-trade system. According to the Worldwatch Institute, Hansen calls cap-and-trade “convenient, but it will not solve
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As if it wasn’t already hard enough to muster up sympathy for U.S. automakers, whose CEOs fly private jets to beg for government bailouts for their gas-guzzling industry. Now comes yet another reminder of why the former rulers of Detroit might not be sob-worthy: they’re still fighting