Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emission standards

From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas emissions…

Mercury fingered in Permian-Triassic extinction

Hmmm. This sounds a bit like a sales pitch against “dirty coal” in support of the recent EPA Mercury ruling instead of regular geological research. I question this research claim…

Abandon all hope, ye who read this

Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2…

The periodic table becomes a weight watcher

From the “not etched in stone department”, via Eurekalert we learn that  Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change showing that everything we…