eia: This report provides an initial assessment of shale oil resources and updates a prior assessment of shale gas resources…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Progress towards clean energy has stalled, IEA says
Today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013
Key Findings:
Stark messages…
Guardian: We have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely burn. For all the millions of words…
How many gigatons of Co2:
- have been relased to day ?
-more can be “safely” released ?
-are left to release ?
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/
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Scientific America: To constrain climate change, such unconventional oil use needs to be stopped, according to scientists. More
Greenpeace: The world is quickly reaching a point of no return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing…
Guardian: An explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along…
AlertNet: More than 190 countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar, from Nov. 26 to Dec. 7 to make progress on…
WMO: The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2011, according to the World…
World Bank: The report, reviewed by some of the world’s top scientists, is being released ahead of the next comprehensive…
Guardian: The slow rate of emissions cuts in major economies has put the world on track for “at least six…
Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?
* Already in 2011, the world has used over a third…
Guardian: Figures show gas flaring among major oil countries contributes as much to climate change as a major economy like…
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of…
We compile the CO2 emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces for the period 1997–2010. However, CO2 emissions calculated…
NOAA: The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Barrow, Alaska, reached 400 parts per million (ppm) this spring,…
EEA: Greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2010, as a result of both economic recovery in many countries after the 2009…
IEA: Global carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil-fuel combustion reached a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2011, according to…
TerraDaily: It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the…
A 50 percent reduction in meat consumption and emissions is needed
Woods Hole Research Center: Meat consumption in the developed world…
EPA: The Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks tracks the national trend in greenhouse gas emissions and removals…
Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…
ESA: Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse…
(AlertNet) – Asia Pacific could triple its carbon emissions by 2050 if it continues its unsustainable use of resources, putting…
Global carbon dioxide emissions increased by a record 5.9 per cent in 2010 following the dampening effect of the 2008-2009…
(WMO) –The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new high in 2010 since pre-industrial time and the…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency:
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by…
Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 that were directly from there.
Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S.…
Key Points:
HFC-23 emissions in western Europe are significantly underreported
Our results question the credibility of the data reported for the Kyoto…
NOAA: Carbon dioxide remains the undisputed king of recent climate change, but other greenhouse gases measurably contribute to the problem.…
The latest greenhouse gas data updated monthly from one of the cleanest air sources in the world.
Cape Grim, on Tasmania’s…
The IEA sets the record straight on energy-related misperceptions
Myth: We could end dependence on oil with electric vehicles within a…
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of…
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of…
Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic…
All Annex I countries – Total emissions including LULUCF/LUCF
Reuters: U.N. clean energy scheme grows, 3,000 projects so far (may 2011)
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Publisher: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
As a result of soaring energy demand from a staggering pace of economic expansion and the…
NOAA/ESRL’s Global Monitoring Division (formerly CMDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, conducts sustained observations and research related to…
The world’s most current data for atmospheric CO2 is from measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
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James Hansen has posted a new 52-page draft paper entitled “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications.”
Continue: Climate Progress
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Episodes of intense rainfall are happening more frequently, thanks to human emissions of carbon dioxide, a new study suggests. A…
On pure emissions alone, the key points are:
• China emits more CO2 than the US and Canada put together –…
Three seemingly disparate stories in recent days help illustrate what climate scientists keep repeating — that empirical evidence indicating a…
United Nations climate change negotiations have failed to deliver an agreement on reducing future greenhouse gas emissions to levels that…
Levels of the man-made greenhouse gas being dumped into the atmosphere have never been higher and are once again accelerating.…
In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Cancún, the latest information on the level and growth of CO2…
