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How China’s economy is choking on smog | Talking Numbers – Yahoo Finance: Imagine your favorite city closed down because of the weather, maybe a blizzard… Many of China’s cities can have the same problem, but it is because of smog pollution. This is a country that burns more coal than the rest of the world, combined. Nice thing is that they share this pollution with their neighbors. Plus the burning of coal is a…
Rising levels of acids in seas may endanger marine life, says study | Environment | The Guardian Ouch! This has been a growing concern. The rapid increases in the CO2 levels — blasting past 400ppm as we speak — that has several scary consequences. First, there’s the greenhouse gas (GHG) thing and the rising temperatures of the air and land. Second, the excess CO2, at least some of it, is absorbed into the oceans. This…
In China, an underground luxury hotel | SmartPlanet: Wow. Don’t know if we should be happy or sad about this resort project. Kind of makes you wonder how and why this massive hole in the ground was constructed as a by product of the need for resources? Good. This should start to make miners think hard about the use of the land when done. The open-pit mines for ore and oil and coal might start…
Can jaw-dropping visuals change the climate conversation? | GreenBiz.com: This week in the news we wave the merger of BIG tobacco. Lorillard Brands if getting bought out by Reynolds; that is, the Newport brands are getting married to a camel. This will make a formidable competitor to Altria’s Marlboro man. (I still love the genius of changing your name from Philip Morris USA to “Altria”, it makes the company sound so Alteristic!:-) So these are products, when…
NextEra Energy Resources commissions its 10,000th megawatt of wind energy – 12/18/12: NextEra (FPL by an older name) now produces enough Wind Power to run a city the size of Chicago, or it will. Rather cool is to check out the company’s Sustainability Report. http://www.nexteraenergy.com/news/index.shtml This will give you an indication of what power generation companies should be talking about in terms of their production capacity and their carbon footprint. For example: “In 2011, 52 million tons of…
These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. There are three things that are prominently in the news about carbon emissions and addressing them in June of 2012. These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. Australia is opening up a Carbon Tax at $23 per ton. They are adjusting from the mistakes of Europe when they started cap and trade at…
