Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled. Western N.C.

2025

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The team, led by atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland in the US, found that the wood had only lost 5% of its carbon compared with a freshly cut Eastern red cedar log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere.

Waste

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement seemed well-positioned to join the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (halting atomic explosions above ground that contaminated the atmosphere) and the 1987 Montreal Protocol (ending use of chemicals that damaged the ozone layer) as one of the three most significant environmental treaties ever negotiated.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has tracked extreme weather and climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods. For companies in the oil and gas sector, 80 to 90 percent of carbon emissions result from the use of their fossil fuel products.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled. Western N.C.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Replacing gasoline with electricity greatly reduces carbon emissions from driving, even when emissions from mining, manufacturing, and generating electricity are included. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). One of the best ways to reduce transportation pollution is by switching to electric.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

Apparently, EPA means to challenge the massive scientific evidence that human carbon emissions are causing dangerous climate change. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change. The list also included a repeal of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Wright told a conservative policy conference in Februarywithout evidence that net zero goals for carbon emissions by 2050 were sinister and lunacy. He said , There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition. He has doubled down on his rhetoric during his first month in office.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

and other countries are currently stumbling their way to a sharp reduction in carbon emissions. We definitely seem to be on the path to reducing emissions but having trouble doing so quickly enough. Despite the risks, if we dump enough carbon into the atmosphere, the dangers of climate change could be even greater.

2024

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Our colleague Mary Nichols echoed that sentiment to the SF Chronicle, saying “this leaves California much less subject to challenge if we say we want to regulate carbon emissions. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

They can also look at known carbon emission sources and model the world with and without those added emissions. As extreme weather events have become more frequent and severe, climate event attribution science underscores the need to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and help communities adapt to the climate change impacts.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2024

Forever is only a bit of an overstatement: NASA says CO2 stays in the atmosphere three hundred to a thousand years. So today’s carbon emissions will still be warming the planet far into in the future. If we reject compromise, we’re gambling that we’ll get a policy someday that’s worth piling on years of extra carbon debt.

Climate Change

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Simply allowing existing trees to grow to maturity could theoretically suck billions of tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts. In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop.

Paris Agreement

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.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is related to the “polluter pays” principle, but it ties compensation to harm that is occurring today because of past carbon emissions, rather than compensation for future harm due to current emissions. That would still seem to leave it with a big share of responsibility (about 10% of all global emissions).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

to integrate food and farm policy in a way that addresses climate change and helps farmers reduce their carbon emissions. Agriculture needs to be a part of the climate solution, given that it is responsible for about 11 percent of heat-trapping carbon emissions in the United States.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The social cost of carbon is significantly higher than the federal estimate, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Carbon Emissions

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 17, 2023

The blocks will avoid at least 2,000 metric tons of carbon emissions and will remove over 500 metric tons of atmospheric carbon each year.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The atmosphere for climate litigation in our Supreme Court is decidedly chilly. In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030.

2030

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Understanding how the atmosphere responds to rising and falling carbon emissions is a complex business, and now researchers have found taking longer to reach net zero could see global warming continue afterwards

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

In the case of carbon removal associated with industrial systems, the process prevents increased emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Carbon removal will be central to decarbonization efforts in the next several decades.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Leader

JUNE 2, 2021

‘True Zero,’ as Steve Hoy, former IBMer and CEO of Enosi, calls it, may be the new term used to talk about achieving carbon emissions reductions goals. While net zero refers to an overall balance between emissions produced and emissions removed from the atmosphere, true zero, or 24/7 carbon-free energy, Read more ».

Carbon Emissions

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Panera has announced its intention to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2050, alongside several intermediate goals for 2025, in a press release Wednesday. Read the full story in Supply Chain Dive.

Carbon Emissions

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” A growing body of scientific research shows that even if society were to halt emissions overnight, a certain amount of atmospheric warming—and accompanying environmental risks— would still occur. Still, the cost of adaptation will only increase every year that carbon emissions continue unchecked. . “As

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Reducing carbon emissions would relieve the mounting pressure of weather extremes. But because negotiations over emissions reductions take place elsewhere, the conference will instead emphasize ways to adapt to a fevered planet. The atmosphere of swirling possibility is part of the appeal.

2030

Environmental Leader

JUNE 2, 2021

‘True Zero,’ as Steve Hoy, former IBMer and CEO of Enosi, calls it, may be the new term used to talk about achieving carbon emissions reductions goals. While net zero refers to an overall balance between emissions produced and emissions removed from the atmosphere, true zero, or 24/7 carbon-free energy, Read more ».

Carbon Emissions

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why it matters: The recent Inflation Reduction Act expands the tax credit for capturing carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The measure is likely to spur the development of more carbon dioxide pipelines, and with it, a new chapter of faceoffs between landowners and developers. billion annually.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere.

Carbon Emissions

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Farmers have, for years, known about their theoretical ability to offset carbon emissions by managing their land in a way that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil — a set of practices sometimes referred to as regenerative agriculture. But measuring the carbon… Read more →

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The atmosphere does not distinguish between carbon emissions from industrial logging and fossil fuels,” says Dale Marshall of Environmental Defence Canada. The post Report: Heading into COP26, Canada is hiding more than 80 million tonnes of carbon emissions from logging appeared first on Environmental Defence.

Carbon Emissions

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Mechanisms of climate mitigation via soil carbon sequestration At the root of the excitement around soils is their ability to hold on to carbon, potentially drawing it out of the atmosphere and locking it away. They present a serious sink for atmospheric carbon to be stored. So, what’s the catch?

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The C3S director Carlo Buontempo said, “These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions”. Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3

Atmosphere

Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. A Pennsylvania judge blocks a rule that would limit carbon emissions from power plants. Why it matters: The risk assessments that were used to build Detroit’s infrastructure are starting to break down. In the News.

2022