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40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm
40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm Nitrous oxide emissions, largely from agriculture, have increased significantly from 1980 to 2020. Efforts to reduce these emissions are critical as there are no means to remove the gas from the atmosphere, posing risks to climate and environmental health. Over four decades, nitrous oxide emissions have risen sharply, […]
More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported – here’s how satellites can find the leaks and avoid wasting a valuable resource
More climate-warming methane leaks into the atmosphere than ever gets reported – here’s how satellites can find the leaks and avoid wasting a valuable resource Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite surveys show. That’s a problem for the climate as […]
Why is Methane Such a Threat?
Why is Methane Such a Threat? Dale Hollow Dam on the Obey River at Celina, Tennessee Reservoirs behind dams are responsible for large amounts of methane emissions One might ask a similar question such as “Why is carbon dioxide such a threat?” or “Why is nitrous oxide such a threat?” or even “Why is sulfur […]
Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU’s ‘Green’ Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany
Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU’s ‘Green’ Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany Thousands of tractor-driving Dutch protesters came out this week to continue demonstrations against the government’s radical plan to cut nitrogen emissions by 30% – 70% as part of their ‘green’ agenda. Farmers from the world’s 5th largest exporter of food are demanding that the […]
UK climate emergency is official policy
UK climate emergency is official policy Heathrow’s expansion is now in question. Image: By J Patrick Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons Major changes in the government’s policy on fossil fuels will be vital to tackling the UK climate emergency that Parliament has recognised. LONDON, 3 May, 2019 − The United Kingdom has taken a potentially momentous policy decision: […]
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know The graph above shows methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 10,000+ years: 8000 BCE to 2018 CE. The units are parts per billion (ppb). The year 1800 is marked with a circle. Note the ominous spike. As a result of increasing human-caused emissions, atmospheric methane […]
“Bunker,” the Fuel for the Giant Engines in Large Cargo Ships
“Bunker,” the Fuel for the Giant Engines in Large Cargo Ships The world grapples with the emissions. When pricing a container shipment, we are sometimes told rates have gone up because “bunker oil” has increased in price or that the delivery will take a few extra days because shipowners ordered their skippers to slow down […]
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas?
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas? Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as benzene, a hydrocarbon, and ozone, a strong oxidant, effectively lowered their abundance […]
Cutting Emissions May Save Some U.S. Cities, but More Than 400 Appear ‘Already Lost,’ Study Finds
Cutting Emissions May Save Some U.S. Cities, but More Than 400 Appear ‘Already Lost,’ Study Finds An alarming new study has found that, no matter what we do to fight climate change, it is already too late for more than 400 U.S. cities — including Miami and New Orleans — which will be overcome by rising sea levels caused […]
