Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The IPCC AR6 report used the most up-to-date estimates from Etminan et al (2016) which are similar but slightly more complicated than the simplified, oft-used formula for CO 2 : RF = 5.35 ln(CO 2 /CO 2 _orig) (seen in Table 6.2 in IPCC TAR). Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This shift has coincided with the nation’s rapid rise in LNG exports overall, surging from zero at the start of 2016 to becoming the largest global LNG exporter in 2022—and even more export projects are anticipated to come online over the next few years. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

This was shown by Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service and presented at the Arctic Circle conference 2016. I discussed this here in 2016 and also in my 2018 RealClimate article “ If you doubt that the AMOC has weakened, read this ”, together with possible other alternative explanations of the ‘cold blob’.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief because of the 2012-2016 drought and their wells failed again in 2021. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief due to the 2012-2016 drought. That is equivalent to what half a million fossil-fueled cars emit annually. miles away from a canal.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. During the year as a whole the record was not just broken, but broken by a great amount as 2023 was 0.17C hotter than 2016 – the previous hottest year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Lance/2016/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In the most sustainable future scenario they modelled, carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero around 2050 and then begin to decline by 2099. In the most fossil fuel-intensive scenario, carbon dioxide emissions more than double by 2099. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogen Hub Pipelines Nita Raju, Community Liaison for the federal Office of Pipeline Safety at the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, will give a presentation to Council on carbon sequestration and hydrogen pipelines. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. Read more here.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 The biggest drop came from the United States, where carbon dioxide emissions fell 3%, or 160 million tonnes, while the economy grew by 1.6%.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground. None of them is commercially viable.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

By 2016, when the EIA for the proposed construction of the disputed power plants was initiated, the local environmental impacts caused by the former power plants had largely disappeared. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and entered into force the following year in 2016, with Japan also submitting its NDC.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

GW reactor late in 2022, which will be the first new nuclear reactor to open in the United States since 2016. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 6% in 2021 as economic activity increased and contributed to rising energy use. “We New Wind, Solar Capacity “Planned additions to U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. The intense wildfires that have been seen in Southern Europe and the Western part of North America are emitting a lot of carbon dioxide.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. Now, not only coal is spewing insane amounts of carbon dioxide – one kilogram per kilo-watt/hour on average – it is also now more expensive than wind, solar, and soon battery storage.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. It is estimated that one acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the UN specialized body for aviation, earned international praise in October 2016 for striking a deal to cap emissions from international passenger and cargo flights at 2020 levels, but a new Sabin Center Working Paper argues that ICAO must improve its transparency to truly “take-off.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2022

In June 2016, the Governor signed Senate Bill 279 (Hutchinson-R-Venango) that killed a comprehensive update of conventional oil and gas drilling environmental protection regulations started under the Rendell Administration, proposed under the Corbett Administration and finalized under the Wolf Administration. “Oil billion in cleanup costs.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The group of petitioners challenging the EPA rules imposing strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants filed its opening briefs on Friday, February 19. The Rule’s strategies for limiting carbon dioxide emissions are not what the Clean Air Act requires. The lawsuit, West Virginia v.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

has only seen two new nuclear plants enter commercial operation since the 1990s with Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 and Vogtle Unit 3 in 2023. civilian nuclear energy industry and industry supply chains, industry potential to reduce criteria pollutants and carbon dioxide, and how the U.S. standards and nonproliferation concerns.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Other estimates put Bitcoin’s annualized carbon footprint at 72.05 megatonnes of carbon dioxide, comparable with that of Greece, with a single Bitcoin transaction generating 805.77 Researchers have recently estimated that Bitcoin mining is responsible for 65.4

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

EPA and DOT estimate that, compared with retaining the existing standards, implementing the SAFE Vehicle Rule would increase vehicle carbon dioxide emissions by 713 million metric tons (MMT) (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY2029). transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The upcoming Olympics will leave a hydrogen society as its legacy,” Yoichi Masuzoe, then governor of Tokyo, declared in 2016. Grey is made from natural gas or coal, and has a large carbon footprint. Blue is also made from fossil fuels but the carbon dioxide emissions are captured or re-used.

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JANZEN AG

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One response to climate change has been to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) into underground pore spaces deep under the surface created by prior oil and gas extraction or occurring in natural geological formations. But how are property rights to underground caverns apportioned? Stefanie L. Jurisdictions , 4 Joule: Duq.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Her work explores international and domestic (U.S.)

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Earthava

JUNE 1, 2021

Carbon dioxide, a common pollutant from burning fossil fuels such as gas and oil, is used by plants during photosynthesis. In 2016, scientists discovered a grove of Yellow Meranti trees with a minimum height of 90 meters (295 feet). Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere could result in better growth. meters (330.7

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

When Ted Flint passed away in 2016, his wife Debby began to explore options to preserve the unique site and its natural resources. Ted and Debby Flint purchased the property in 1986 and continued its stewardship. In 1991, much of the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pennsylvania’s power plants are now releasing more CO2 than they have since 2016. By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 percent decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in 2018 compared to 2017 from the forest and land use sectors-- 4.55 million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons in 2018. million tons to 235 million tons. million tons in 2005 to 73.09

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2022

They are the 10th largest contributor to methane emissions – a greenhouse gas that’s up to 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide. “Oil and gas wells are a big problem – both for our environment and for our taxpayers. They carry a tremendous liability for taxpayers. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

NewsClips: -- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: State Judge Halts PA Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Rule -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Pennsylvania’s RGGI Climate Rule Paused Until Trial This Fall [Posted: July 8, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2022

They are the 10th largest contributor to methane emissions – a greenhouse gas that’s up to 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide. “Oil and gas wells are a big problem – both for our environment and for our taxpayers. They carry a tremendous liability for taxpayers. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. social cost of carbon. social cost of carbon. carbon dioxide.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?). And while very low carbon emissions is possible, at some dollar cost, the absence of all quantity is not so easily if ever achieved (. And that concern is real without delving into the science of whether net zero is actually possible?

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