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/ (read more...)
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 (read more...)
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/ (read more...)
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 (read more...)
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 (read more...)
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/ (read more...)
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 (read more...)
In a bid to track future sea-level increases from climate change, researchers at NASA have come out with the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. (read more...)
Arnold Schwarzenegger issued forth a call to end the false debate over climate science. http://www.livescience.com/13024-schwarzenegger-arpa.html (read more...)
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/ (read more...)
New research shows that human-caused climate change has significantly increased the chances of extreme rain and snowfall around the world, along with the deadly floods that follow. This is according to two new studies published Wednesday in the British journal Nature. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/02/global-warming-climate-change-floods-extreme-rainfall-precipitation/1 (read more...)
Assemblywoman Shannon Grove has introduced Assembly Bill 333, which calls for the delayed implementation of AB 32, otherwise known as the “Global Warming Solutions Act,” passed by the legislature in 2006, her staff announced Tuesday. http://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/news/x454338738/Grove-introduces-bill-to-delay-environmental-regulations (read more...)
A new study titled “The Last Drop: Climate Change and the Southwest Water Crisis” states that global warming will intensify a coming water ‘crisis’ in California and the rest of the Southwest. A severe shortfall could push the state’s water costs into the trillions over the next century. http://www.ocregister.com/news/water-287985-climate-change.html http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/11/3394092/changing-climate-will-make-coming.html (read more...)
University of Massachusetts geoscientist claims that massive glacial meltwaters assumed to have flooded the entire North Atlantic 8,200 years ago flowed thousands of miles further south. http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/applications/UMass-Amherst-Ocean-Circulation-Model-Changes-View-of-Climate-Change-115929534.html (read more...)
A group of community groups, represented by the San Francisco-based Center on Race, Poverty and the Environme have filed a motion that could delay the implementation of parts of AB 32. The groups suing the Air Resources Board argue in part that AB 32 violates the California Environmental Quality (read more...)
According to research, the frequency of snow storms in the Midwest increases as global temperatures increase. The research also concludes that “these comparative results reveal that a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more snowstorms (read more...)
A study by the Engineering The Future partnership warns that warming temperatures and increased freak weather events will severely disrupt energy, transport, water and IT and that the professional engineering sector will play a key role in tackling the destructive effects of future climate change. http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/analysis/business-analysis/121881-engineering-the-solutions-to-effects-of-climate-change.html (read more...)
The Climate Action Reserve has commissioned a series of white papers to examine forest protocol issues in more depth. The white papers cover the following topics: Accounting for carbon in soils affected by forest carbon projects Accounting for carbon in lying dead wood Effects on forest carbon of (read more...)
Some weather scientists are saying that this year’s severe weather is related to global warming. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020704717.html (read more...)
Two new studies paint contrasting views of whether climate change-induced weather will force millions of people to migrate to safer areas. One says yes, the other no. In an upcoming report, the Asian Development Bank (ABD) warns that the extreme weather of climate change — floods, droughts and storms (read more...)
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