Tag Archives: carbon dioxide
A sanitised fuel
I debated myself for ten minutes as to whether I should criticise an article that appeared on the DD News website on this blog. The article is flawed in the way many science articles on the internet are, but at … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, DD News, Department of Science and Technology, draft EIA 2020, draft environmental impact assessment notification 2020, ecological security, fossil fiels, fugitive emissions, Godavari river, greenhouse warming potential, hydrocarbons, Krishna river, Krishna-Godavari basin, methane, methanol, ONGC
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Prestige journals and their prestigious mistakes
On June 24, the journal Nature Scientific Reports published a paper claiming that Earth’s surface was warming by more than what non-anthropogenic sources could account for because it was simply moving closer to the Sun. I.e. global warming was the … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climate geoengineering, morality, Nature journal, Nature Scientific Reports, retraction index, Science journal
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Not all waterworlds can host life
During its formation, Venus was in the Solar System’s habitable zone – much like Earth is now. Scientists think its surface contained liquid water, and its atmosphere was somewhat like Earth’s. Maybe there was life, too. However, as the levels … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, liquid water, ocean acidification, runaway greenhouse effect, tectonic activity, water worlds
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The devil in Obama’s new emissions target for the US lies in base year details
President Barack Obama announced a new climate change target for the United States’ electricity generation sector on August 3. Hailed by many as ambitious, the plan dictates that power plants in the world’s largest economy and second largest polluter reduce their emissions below 32% of their 2005 … Continue reading
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Tagged base year, carbon dioxide, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Kyoto Protocol
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