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USCAP called for a 42% reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels, along with subsidies for coal plants that can capture CO2 and a market board to administer carbon offsets. And on Jan. 15, the leaders of USCAP - including GE head Jeffrey Immelt and DuPont chairman Charles Holliday - visited Capitol Hill to pitch their carbon-cutting blueprint. With Bush out of the way, it almost seemed likely. (See TIME's "Innovators of Renewable Energy...
...true that as temperatures warm, there is likely to be a temporary beneficial effect on agriculture. Like people, plants generally prefer warmth to cold, and they may flourish with rising levels of CO2. But research from Wolfram Schlenker at Columbia University shows that, as average temperatures continue to warm, those benefits dwindle and eventually reverse, and crop yields begin to decline. "It simply becomes too hot for the growing plants," says Naylor. "The heat damages the crops' ability to produce enough yield...
...grams discharged when boiling water in a kettle.Later that day, Google’s Senior Vice President of Operations Urs Hölzle quickly responded to the article with a post on the official Google blog. “One Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2,” he wrote. He added that a search uses “about the same amount of energy that your body burns in 10 seconds.”Google Spokesperson Jamie Yood said in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that “the claims made...
...week-long U.N. climate-change summit in Poznan, Poland, which concluded on Dec. 12, the Nobel laureate warned delegates from over 190 countries that the time for idle talk on global warming was over. "We now face a crisis that makes it abundantly clear that increased CO2 emissions anywhere are a threat to the integrity of this planet's climate balance everywhere," he said. "As a result the old divide between the North and South, between developed and developing countries, is a divide that must become obsolete...
...Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than they “probably [have been] during the last 20 million years.” And, the report noted glumly, with China and India consuming more and more, the problem is getting worse instead of better. The new data shows that CO2 levels have only risen faster since the turn of the century. So much for compact fluorescents and hybrid Priuses—apparently, the world is still going...