Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Is There a Clean Energy Standard in Our Future?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.17.2012

Bill Chameides

Americans are behind Obama, in the sense that they support the president's concept of a national clean energy standard. But they're also behind, in the sense that the voting public is unwilling to go as far as the president wants to go because of costs.

Accounting for Costs in our Energy Choices Might Just Save Our Economies

Pano Kroko | Posted 04.16.2012

Pano Kroko

Ignorance is bliss. Or is just plain destruction. And maybe our parents didn't know that they were causing a problem for future generations when the...

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Fresh Look at Storage and Other Issues

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.06.2012

Bill Chameides

New research concludes we've got space to store carbon, but other issues remain.

North Sea Well Blow-out Spikes Carbon Emissions

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.04.2012

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok. Déjà vu? Not quite, but certainly some echoes of BP's Deepwater Horizon incident from two years ago. On March 25, the...

Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.26.2012

Kiyotaka Akasaka

More people in the world are living better, but the natural world that underpins this prosperity is constantly being eroded.

The Clouds Are Falling, the Clouds Are Falling

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.01.2012

Bill Chameides

Does a new study lend support to Richard Lindzen's "iris effect" hypothesis?

European Carbon Tax On Airlines Is Safe For Now

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

By Gerard Wynn LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Once rhetoric surrounding a brewing "carbon trade war" has cooled, non-EU countries are lik...

Airline Reduces Emissions, Receives Carbon Credits

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

HONOLULU -- Hawaiian Airlines says it is the first airline to receive verified carbon credits for reducing emissions. The airline announced Monday it...

Has the Earth's Missing Heat Been Found?

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.11.2012

Bill Chameides

Starting in about 2003, a slowdown in heat buildup was observed in the ocean while greenhouse gases continued to build up in the atmosphere, trapping more heat. Six years later Kevin Trenberth asked, where was the missing heat?

A Look at Our Energy Outlook

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.08.2012

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.Steady as we go with energy but definitely not on our climate target. Presidential Disconnect? A little more than tw...

Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.01.2012

Bill Chameides

I guarantee that most scientists, myself included, would love to make their reputation by refuting the whole notion of global warming. We have tried and have concluded that we can't.

Recipe for 80% Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.14.2012

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.Here comes the electric car? 2011 was the year of the electric car and a bit of a bust for the electric car. Last ye...

New Ads: Clean Cars or a Trip to the Greenwash?

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.30.2011

Bill Chameides

Advertising could be considered an art of grand hyperbole, but are new car ads the latest brushstrokes on this fanciful canvas or truthful commentary on how far down the road car companies have come to lower pollution?

EU Eases Cap-And-Trade Plan For Airlines

AP | By DON MELVIN | Posted 11.27.2011

BRUSSELS -- An EU program aimed at slowing climate change will allow airlines to emit 85 percent of their carbon dioxide limits for free in the hope t...

Confirmed: U.S. Emissions Up in 2010

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.24.2011

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com, the blog by the dean of Duke's Nicholas SchoolWhether at Christmas time or in the heat of summer, nobody likes a lu...

Global Warming: Fox News Separates Fact From Fiction

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.11.2011

Bill Chameides

Fox News called the three-and-a-half-minute segment "Climate Change Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction" -- an apt name because as far as the science is concerned, there's very little that could be characterized as fact, and a whole lot that could pass for fiction.

Tanana -- Tiny City in Yukon Takes a Giant Renewable Step

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.09.2011

Bill Chameides

In DC, our leaders are arguing over how much of our Alaskan wilderness we should open up for oil and gas extraction. In the meantime, some enterprising folks, with a lot less clout but a lot at stake, have decided to go their own renewable way.

Post-Katrina Rebuilding Includes Wider, Greener Transit Options

Susan Buchanan | Posted 09.18.2011

Susan Buchanan

New Orleans business and community leaders have argued that an intercity rail line would benefit the region economically and culturally, and would be another way for New Orleans residents to head north when hurricanes approach.

Svante Arrhenius: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

The greenhouse effect and climate change have been front-page, headline-grabbing stuff for decades now. But scientists have been studying the phenomenon for more than a century, Arrhenius included.

Energy Efficiency on the Rebound

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

That there is a rebound effect is clear. How large of one is the question. If emission reduction goals turn out to be illusory, we will be in climate-change trouble.

Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!!

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.TheGreenGrok.com. Award Achieved Through Remarkable Corporate Focus on Negligence and Incompetence While BP has distanced itself ...

Cap and Trade: Dead or Alive?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

One of cap and trade's longtime advocates has said the scheme "died of what amounts to natural causes in Washington." But earlier this month, China and officials from the EU met to scope out a pilot carbon-trading program.

Green Coal

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Craig K. Comstock

Unless techniques for sequestering carbon dioxide are both thorough and economical, the price of continuing to burn coal would be very high.

Climate Change: The Upside of Getting Old

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.comWhen it comes to global greenhouse gas emissions, population size really does matter. Demographers have some good new...