Word: carbonator
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California, the bill is another step toward an ambitious commitment to drastically cut its emissions of atmosphere-warming greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, which are released whenever fossil fuels are burned. In September, the state passed legislation calling on California to reduce its total emissions by a whopping 25 percent by 2020. The San Francisco Chronicle posited that the pledge “could lead to a dizzying array of changes in industry and elsewhere,” suggesting that “state regulators could require more public transportation, more densely built housing, a major new investment in projects...
...only a small step toward curbing global warming. Lighting only comprises 9 percent of U.S. residential energy usage, and residential usage makes up only about one-fifth of all energy usage in the U.S. It will take more reductions in fossil fuel-supplied energy usage before our carbon dioxide emissions will see any real change. It will require culture-changing sacrifices of the magnitude that the Chronicle predicts...
...time to start thinking about more solutions is now, and not when Boston Harbor is lapping at the doorstep of Currier House. There are already ideas to curb global warming: regulations to cap carbon dioxide emissions, government investments in renewable energy technologies, and research into scrubbing excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But the results of most curbs will inevitably be the same: restrictions on the way we use energy, or a higher price of its consumption...
...California alone, the loser is clear: personal freedom. For two centuries, humans have essentially had free reign to pollute the atmosphere as they wish without consequence. But these days are no longer. Nearly every crucial human activity today—agriculture, transportation, heating, construction—ultimately adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than it removes, and our lifestyles will have to change drastically if we want our planet to survive. We’re about to lose more than just the freedom to choose light bulbs, but that’s the price we’ll have...
...flight on Silverjet had a few firsts: my first time passing through security and boarding a plane in seven minutes; the first women-only loo in the troposphere (the result of a heartfelt suggestion from a woman at Heathrow); the first carbon-neutral airline, which takes up to $23 from round-trip fares to fund projects that neutralize carbon emissions...