Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago sent the note appended below several days ago and I thought it worth featuring as a “Your Dot” contribution to stimulate discussion of an important question in the climate challenge. Once emitted, carbon dioxide is a “ globally well mixed gas” that knows no borders. Every year, commerce becomes increasingly “globally well mixed” as well. So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or…?
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Posted on February 11, 2010
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TEXAS A&M—Researchers studying climate now have a new tool at their disposal that yields daily global measurements of carbon dioxide and water vapor in a key part of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Posted on January 5, 2010
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MADISON — The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.
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Posted on December 11, 2009
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VANCOUVER, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. (TSX Venture Exchange: CFQ) (”CFS” or the “Company”) (http://www.carbonfriendly.com) is pleased to announce that it is increasing its previously announced (by way of news release dated September 23, 2009) financing from $1,000,000 to up to $2,000,000 by way of non-brokered private placement (the “Offering”).
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Posted on November 8, 2009
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A UCLA researcher has analyzed fossilized algae, and says the rocks prove that the level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has not been this high for at least 1.5 million years.
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Posted on October 11, 2009
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Keynesian Boom and Bust – Like we know, the recent and continuing massive spending spree by nearly all G20 governments and their central banks, described as “fighting recession”, is also called Keynesian. One important point is that Keynesian-type deficit spending as a way to fight recession was never applied as Keynes himself recommended and advised, simply because he explained it in such strange ways, and because the idea of deficit spending did not become official policy and mainstream economic thinking in his lifetime. To be sure, arguments can be made that ‘the Bretton Woods world’, creation of the IMF and IBRD, state economic interventionism and macro management, and sometimes micro management of local economies and sectors inside them, were all ‘Keynesian inspired’.
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Posted on September 5, 2009
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Last month, the G8 – the eight largest nations in terms of their economies – agreed to a 50% reduction in global carbon emissions by 2050. In a related move a few weeks earlier, the Waxman-Markey bill passed the House, bringing a carbon-constrained economy one step closer to the U.S. Supporters and detractors reacted with predictable fury. If you take the inadvisable approach of listening to both at once, you might believe these steps will fail to save the planet while destroying our economy.
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Posted on August 27, 2009
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Award-winning writer Chris Barton was the only NZ reporter at the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London. Climate change was the big issue – and it’s about to get even bigger with the Government setting a greenhouse gas emissions target.
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Posted on August 10, 2009
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London, July 30 (ANI): A new study has suggested that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation in the Amazon are increasing as loggers and land developers move deeper into dense regions of the forest.
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Posted on July 31, 2009
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IT SEEMS a global carbon trading network is the latest weapon in our arsenal to fight climate change, according to The Global Carbon Trading Report.
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Posted on July 21, 2009
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The US has proposed a legislation entitled ‘American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009’ which aims, inter alia, to reduce global pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. The proposed legislation has a provision for imposition of ‘border adjustment’ measures. Under these measures, foreign manufacturers and importers including those from India would be required to pay for and hold special allowances to cover the carbon contained in US-bound products with a view to ensure that US manufacturers are not put at a disadvantage relative to overseas competitors.
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Posted on July 21, 2009
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No American city is among the top 50 cities in the world for air pollution according to the World Bank. (1) Another list, ‘The Top Ten of the Dirty Thirty,’ compiled by the Blacksmith Institute of New York compared the toxicity of contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. Places were bumped up in rank if children were impacted. No US or European sites made the list. Sites in China, India and Russia occupied six of the top ten spots. Some examples: at Linfen in Shanxi province-the heart of China’s coal industry-industrial and automobile emissions put the health of 3 million people at risk. At Sukinda in the state of Orissa in India, 2.6 million people face the hazards of one of the world’s opencast chromite mines. And in Dzerzhinsk, Russia, 300,000 people are exposed to toxic by-products from chemical weapons. (2)
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Posted on May 24, 2009
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* Japan manufacturers’ emissions up 1 pct in 2007/08
* Emissions may have climbed more in 2008/09 – govt
TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ CO2 emissions based on their energy consumption may have risen in the year that ended on March 31 despite a slowdown in economic activity amid the global financial crisis, a government official said on Friday.
Carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturers, Japan’s main polluters, rose 1 percent in the year to March 2008, a nationwide survey showed on Friday. That was far slower than a 12 percent rise in the utility sector.
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Posted on April 4, 2009
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged UK firms to seize opportunities in the growing market for low carbon exports, during a speech at the Carbon Trust on Wednesday 25 March.
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Posted on March 25, 2009
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