Sunday, November 11, 2012

Methane climate change

  • Alaska's Methane Hydrate Resource Spark Debate Over Energy And Climate ...

    Scientists collected data from 30 days of methane production, five times longer than anyone had done before. They are now trying to determine if methane produced was from an exchange with CO2, a reaction to the nitrogen, or a reaction to pressure ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Post-Sandy and post-election, will political taboo on climate change be lifted?

    While more than a dozen legislators targeted by environmental groups for their votes on clean energy and climate change bills were defeated in the election, neither chamber switched parties.

    www.kansascity.com

  • President Obama addresses climate change in acceptance speech

    In a recent plea to world leaders to address the growing threat of climate change: Why Arctic Sea Ice Matters To You and Me, John Nissen of AMEG (Arctic Methane Emergency Group) didn't mince words when he put this out on the table for world leaders to ...

    www.examiner.com

  • A Climate Change Agenda for the Second Obama Administration

    In the last four years, America has made some progress to address climate change, particularly in working with auto companies to establish strong vehicle rules that will significantly reduce emissions and our reliance on foreign oil.

    www.bloomberg.com

  • Greg Combet says the decision to commit to the second Kyoto period was not a ...

    THE Gillard government's decision to sign on to the second period of the Kyoto climate change protocol will guarantee Australian businesses access to low-cost UN emissions permits.

    www.theaustralian.com.au

  • New Report Highlights Link Between Climate Change, National Security

    The report by the congressionally-chartered research group begins with an assertion that global warming is real, and that the mainstream scientific community believes that heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are being added to the ...

    www.voanews.com

  • Sandy spotlights climate change

    Fuelling climate change is human consumption of fossil fuels, including coal and oil, which increase the concentration of GHGs, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in the atmosphere. They, in turn, increase global temperatures.

    www.jamaicaobserver.com

  • Methane below the ocean and in the arctic is escaping increasing greenhouse gas

    About 60 percent of methane now comes from human activities such as landfills, cattle rearing or rice paddies. If we add this previously trapped methane, the effect on climate change will speed up. Already, the ice cover has almost disappeared in large ...

    www.examiner.com

  • Bill Nye on Sandy, Climate Change and the 2012 Election

    ... humans significantly cause the world to warm and climates to change and that, in order to slow climate change and eventually control its effects, we must slow down and regulate the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Aspen Skiing Company Invests in a Clean Energy Coal Mine

    Here's how it works: The money was put into a system that captures methane emissions that are vented from the Elk Creek mine in Somerset, Colorado, and then uses this gas to generate electricity, which is fed into the grid.

    www.outsideonline.com

  • Worried about climate change? Go vegan

    The much more damaging methane and nitrous oxide gases are discharged from the digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste.

    www.baltimoresun.com

  • October 22 News: Rising CO2 Concentrations May Double Methane Output ...

    More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coupled with rising temperatures, is making rice agriculture a larger source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change by a research team that includes a ...

    thinkprogress.org

  • Climate-Changing Methane Reservoirs In The East Coast

    Methane, for those who don't know, is an extremely potent global warming gas—more so than carbon dioxide—and a large scale release would result in significant detrimental climate changes. The experts reveal that the temperature changes in the Gulf ...

    www.greenerideal.com

  • Climate Crimes Against Humanity

    Arctic summer ice is disappearing faster than iPad minis and the tundra is giving up its climate-warming methane at an alarming rate.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • QUENTIN PARSONS, Quincy: Reduce effects of climate change by watching ...

    The much more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are discharged from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively.

    www.patriotledger.com

  • Is climate change, global warming real? US Generals say it's a problem that ...

    And yet, while our political leaders treat threats like terrorism, Russia, or cyberwar as existential threats to America's national security, they lump climate change into an issue that only special-interest "environmental" campaigners care about ...

    www.alaskadispatch.com

  • WB-LB Partnership Develops Methane Recovery From Waste For LGUs

    This is the first landfill gas recovery PoA registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is the second PoA developed by Land Bank of the Philippines registered this year.

    www.mb.com.ph

  • Pig farm first to tap into carbon credits

    Blantyre Farms, near Young in the state's south-east, spent almost $1 million on a biogas generator that captures methane from the manure, turns it into electricity and exports it to the national grid. It has turned the farm's monthly power bill of $15 ...

    www.smh.com.au

  • Another BBC scandal: hiding their climate change agenda

    The BBC should be forced - and would already have been by any self-respecting Government - to provide full, in-depth refutations and apologies for all of the hours of mindless bollocks they have broadcast about "Climate Change" (sic) and the several ...

    blogs.spectator.co.uk

  • Candidate Jill Stein: 'The climate catastrophe is rapidly closing in on us'

    This week presidential candidate Jill Stein said, "It is outrageous they will not even mention this devastating reality we are facing," said Stein, citing the growing evidence of climate change in the widespread U.S. drought and unprecedented melting ...

    www.examiner.com

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