Climate Change

First Large-Scale Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Facility Under Construction

fberton — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:09:08 +0000

Last week, ground was broken in Decatur, Il on construction of this country’s first large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage facility that aims to demonstrate that CO2 emissions can be stored permanently in deep underground rock formations.

http://cleantechnica.com/2011/08/30/first-large-scale-industrial-carbon-capture-and-storage-facility-under-construction/

http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/08/ground-breaks-large-carbon-capture-storage-facility-midwest/

Carbon capture and sequestration not forgotten

fberton — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:59:33 +0000

Carbon capture and sequestration may have gotten a second wind now that the Obama administration is helping to finance new projects.

http://www.energybiz.com/article/11/08/carbon-capture-and-sequestration-comes-air

Lawrence Berkeley researching carbon sequestration

fberton — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:49:20 +0000

Researchers plan to test technology that could help reduce the cost of carbon sequestration projects by allowing them to run at least partially off site-generated electricity.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/pump-co2-into-the-earth-to-create-electricity-berkeley-lab-is-on-it/18377

http://news.thomasnet.com/green_clean/2011/08/30/combining-carbon-capture-and-sequestration-with-geothermal-energy/

Scientists link Somalia famine to global warming

fberton — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:22:41 +0000

As millions of people struggle to survive a famine in East Africa, it’s hard not to ask whether anyone saw this disaster coming. Chris Funk, one of the leading researchers of rainfall in the region, would answer yes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/somalia-famine-climate-change-global-warming_n_930935.html

Permafrost carbon could increase climate change

fberton — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:51:31 +0000

Computer modeling conducted by Lawrence Berkelely National labs indicates that thawing permafrost could change high-latitude regions being a carbon sink, storing carbon dioxide, to a source of atmospheric CO2 by the end of the 21st century.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/24/Permafrost-carbon-could-up-global-warming/UPI-87781314233658/?spt=hs&or=sn

Newly discovered Icelandic ocean current challenges climate change ideas

fberton — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:58:30 +0000

Scientists have recently confirmed the existence of a deep-flowing ocean circulation system off Iceland which could make the ocean respond differently to climate change than previously thought.

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/08/24/newly-discovered-icelandic-ocean-current-changes-climate-change-ideas/

More GHG rules for proposed hospital in Santa Rosa

fberton — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:18:08 +0000

A list of additional environmental requirements has been added in order for Sutter Health to build its planned $284 million hospital north of Santa Rosa.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110823/ARTICLES/110829797/1350?p=1&tc=pg&tc=ar

NASA comes out with the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.

fberton — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:07:34 +0000

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/201156/20110820/map-tracks-antarctica-ice-flow-nasa-climate-change.htm

The Terminator says its time to end debate over climate change

fberton — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:28:13 +0000

Arnold Schwarzenegger issued forth a call to end the false debate over climate science.

http://www.livescience.com/13024-schwarzenegger-arpa.html

House GOP propose elimination of climate science bud

fberton — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:22:28 +0000

Three members of the new House GOP have proposed eliminating NASA’s climate change research capability entirely. The cost of climate change research is a subset of all earth science research which itself gets only 7.5% of NASA’s entire funding, which totals 0.6% of the US Federal budget.

http://cleantechnica.com/2011/02/17/house-gop-to-eliminate-climate-change-science-budget/