The conclusions of a 2007 study on global sea levels was recently retracted due to the authoring climate scientists’ belief that some of their underpinning assumptions were wrong.
The 2007 study was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and they have definitely come under a great deal a scrutiny lately given their recent [...]
Sometimes it’s the smallest and easiest changes have the greatest impact as global sea shipping company Maersk discovered.
The Danish shipping company Maersk was able to reduce carbon emissions created by their ocean-going vessels by 30% by just slowing down.
That’s right, the shipping company was able to reduce their emissions by just slowing down and taking [...]
Norway had shocked many with the announcement of their ambitious emission reduction goals leading into Copenhagen, but recently Norwegian officials have finally released the outline to meet Norway’s ambitious reduction goals.
Prior to Copenhagen, Norway announced that they would reduce their carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. This was more ambitious than any other developed nation [...]
With “experts” stating that the recession is over or that we are due for another drop, it is tough to say how our current economy is actually doing. But, the State of Arizona has stated the down economy is causing them to pull out of a regional cap-and-trade agreement set to begin in 2012.
The interesting [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama presented the country’s budget for the year to Congress yesterday for approval. The budget contained a lot of language discussing a wide range of topics, but there was not much language on carbon markets.
Last year, the proposal for a carbon trading market failed when the administration estimated that the market could generate $646 [...]
Even though new climate legislation and reform is still being debated, that does not mean the original Clean Air Act doesn’t apply. A Kansas utility company found that out once it agreed to a $500 million fine for greenhouse gas emission violations.
It is unfortunate that some executives and companies believe they can do whatever they [...]
Wind turbines and “farms” are being to show up in the most unlikely of places. This week, 3 wind turbines have finally begun operating in Antarctica.
Antarctica is one of the harshest environments in the world yet many scientists risk their lives to study in these conditions to determine how we are effecting the environment.
Typically, these [...]
The latest development in the fight to reduce and regulate carbon emissions has brought an interesting twist to the forefront.
In Portland, Oregon public officials have mandated that coal-fired power plants must install carbon emission scrubbers and cleaning technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 or shut down.
But at Portland General Electric’s Boardman Power Plant [...]
Last year, India announced their National Solar Mission of producing 22 Gigawatts of electricity from solar power by 2022 and now more information has been released about the first phase of the National Solar Mission.
The first phase of the National Solar Mission is expected to be completed by 2013 with newly developed solar power plants [...]
A new study, authored by scientists from such institutions as Rutgers University and Columbia University, have discovered that basalt formations could present a huge repository for carbon dioxide emissions.
Some preliminary results from lab work conducted by the scientists shows that the basalt formations are extremely effective at storing carbon dioxide.
However, that’s not all the basalt [...]