New Scientist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Carbon dioxide gas found throughout the atmosphere of Callisto hints it has a complex carbon cycle – akin to the one which on Earth helps to sustain life

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It shows the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and tells a story about the carbon cycle, involving Earth’s crust, the atmosphere, land surface, the biosphere, and the oceans. The Keeling curve, highlighted with the release of important climate reports and climate summits.

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

The Supreme Courts decision could have implications for certain marine carbon dioxide (mCDR) activities that require permits under the CWA. mCDR refers to ocean-based processes or techniques designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for long periods of time in the ocean.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By Georgina Gustin At its annual conference on climate change this week, the United Nations released a major report saying the world has little hope of reaching global climate targets without quickly lowering emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s nearly 300 times more powerful at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. Thus despite the smaller concentrations and changes in methane compared to carbon dioxide, the impacts are comparable. W/m 2 for CH 4. Stocks and flows.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 25, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant world, and there is also an unexpected bump in the data

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

By Phil McKenna Climate policies that rely on decarbonization alone are not enough to hold atmospheric warming below 2 degrees Celsius and, rather than curbing climate change, would fuel additional warming in the near term, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes.

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Yale E360

APRIL 27, 2022

To meet its climate goals, Britain must not only cut emissions, but also scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new study finds that rock dust sprinkled on farmland could supply nearly half of the needed carbon removal. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

In addition, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities routinely point to the danger of concentrated carbon dioxide , embedded siting inequities , and the use of CCS to distract from the real work of phasing out fossil fuels.) Who needs units anyway? Exxon’s figure shows relative changes in cost (as measured in…?)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One scope is the narrow carbon picture , the one that you’ll hear about most readily: what these approaches mean in terms of how much carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) comes out of a gas plant’s smokestack, or how much less a plant can be said to be emitting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

This research determines the relative contributions of different emission sources, including the oil and gas, agricultural, industrial, and transportation sectors, to the overall increase in heat-trapping gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. The non-expert in question was Guy Callendar , a British steam engineer doing his own atmospheric research at home.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

Wetlands can also act as carbon sinks, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 17, 2023

Parts of the Amazon managed by Indigenous people removed more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they released, while areas not managed by Indigenous people saw widespread deforestation, producing more carbon dioxide than they removed, a report finds. Read more on E360 →.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Industries dependent on marine resources, such as fisheries and tourism, face significant threats from this environmental degradation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. According to the IPCC, every trillion tons of carbon dioxide translates into another half degree of warming. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Geologic carbon sequestration—i.e., the storage of carbon dioxide in underground rock formations—has been the subject of much debate in recent years. It is also needed for some carbon dioxide removal (“CDR”) approaches, such as direct air capture, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The InfluenceMap dataset includes company-by-company data on emissions of carbon dioxide–the heat-trapping gas responsible for the largest contribution to climate change–and methane, a very potent heat-trapping gas that lasts a shorter time in the atmosphere.

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New Scientist

MARCH 24, 2025

Weve pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that needs to be paid back. Large animals like wolves, bison and whales may already be tackling the problem

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. Each gallon of gasoline used results in 19 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, and the extraction of oil, refining, and distribution of gasoline results in the equivalent of an additional 4.5

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 13, 2024

The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the urgent need the advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a complement to (but not a substitute for) emissions reductions. Carbon dioxide naturally moves between the atmosphere and the oceans surface in an attempt to achieve equilibrium.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to investigating new ways to control methane emissions, scientists are also researching the possibility of removing methane already in the atmosphere. Those issues are explored in a new report by researchers at the Sabin Center, Removing Methane via Atmospheric Oxidation Enhancement: The Legal Landscape.

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New Scientist

JULY 4, 2024

A start-up in Albania co-founded by a mining industry mogul is farming plants to harvest carbon-neutral nickel from the soil while simultaneously removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Foundations of vapor pressure deficit Two principles of physics are key to understanding VPD and how it interacts with our ecosystems and atmosphere, which ultimately affect fire risk. When plants perform photosynthesis, they open their pores to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

On July 11, the House-- by a vote of 127 to 75 -- and the Senate-- by a vote of 37 to 12 -- passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) establishing a framework for authorizing the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide through injection wells. This practice could be widespread in a carbon-constrained world.

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Scientific American

JUNE 9, 2024

World leaders must make plans to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a new report says

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New Scientist

APRIL 17, 2024

Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2024

Short-lived climate forcers are pollutants, including aerosols and particulate matter, that remain in the atmosphere for a shorter period than carbon dioxide but have a potent impact on global warming and air quality. We will also tackle the outline that will guide the Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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