Word: carbonization
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...much greater consciousness about it now. [Energy tycoon] Boone Pickens says he is doing wind power not because of global warming but because of our reliance on foreign energy, but it's still part of that broad mosaic. Al Gore wants to take our electric power grid completely off carbon. There is going to be a new climate change treaty by the end of the year, and hopefully we'll be a signatory to it. It's back on the radar screen politically, and a lot of people are paying attention to it. You look at the changes that...
...very rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their carbon footprints are bigger. Between their private jets, fleets of cars and large (often multiple) houses, the wealthy tend to suck up more than their fair share of the earth's resources. And that's not even counting the environmental impact of the businesses that built their bank accounts...
...budget sketch is seen as an intricate web of reinforcing reforms, an exquisite piece of re-engineering in which stimulus creates jobs, jobs generate revenues, revenues fund an efficient health-care system, which in turn tames the deficit. What critics consider a massive intervention to impose a price on carbon emissions is, to the White House, the engine for the growth of a robust new green economy. Meanwhile, students will begin graduating from improved schools and moving seamlessly into this prosperous future. Shortcomings may lie in the details, but the economy won't really be fixed until the entire...
...this is a sharp reversal of the mindless use of high-fructose corn syrup that has been the case in this country since 1970. This movement also promises to be at least a little bit greener. The energy necessary to turn corn into corn syrup leaves a huge carbon footprint. According to Chloe Frank ’09, author of “A Controversial Sweetener: The Hoopla over High Fructose Corn Syrup in America,” HFCS is made by milling corn into cornstarch. The cornstarch is then broken down into glucose, and the chains of glucose molecules?...
...best way to protect California's coast would be to sharply reduce carbon emissions now and hope to avert the worst of the warming. But even if we do cut carbon soon, we've locked in sea-level rise, and we need to begin protecting sensitive coastlines better than we did in New Orleans. The Pacific Institute study suggests that some 1,100 miles of improved coastal defenses - including dunes and seawalls - would be needed to protect against a 1.4 m sea rise. It won't be cheap - the cost will be at least $14 billion up front, according...