Arkiv for kategorien ‘Black Carbon’


Interactive

torsdag, 12. april 2012

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Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…

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Black carbon ranked number two climate pollutant by US EPA

tirsdag, 10. april 2012

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At the request of Congress, EPA has conducted an intensive effort to summarize available scientific information on the climate and health impacts…

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Coal accounted for almost half of the increase in energy use from 2000-10.

lørdag, 25. februar 2012

The Economist: Asia has been responsible for over two-thirds of the growth in global energy demand over the past two…

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Black Carbon: The Dark Horse of Climate Change Drivers

søndag, 17. april 2011

For decades, efforts to slow global warming have mostly aimed to limit heat-trapping emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). Now scientists…

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Soot and global warming

mandag, 4. april 2011

Black carbon (BC), contributes to climate warming in two ways. First, black soot particles in the air absorb sunlight and…

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Al Gore calls on world to burn less wood and fuel to curb ‘black carbon’

onsdag, 29. april 2009

Soot, also known as “black carbon”, from engines, forest fires and partially burned fuel was collecting in the Arctic where…

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