From Oregon State University: Climate projections don’t accurately reflect soil carbon release 6-2-11 CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study concludes that models may be predicting releases of atmospheric carbon dioxide…
Tag: greenhouse gas
Ooops! Biodegradeable products release methane which is more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas
Bad news for Greenware cups like the one below. Study: Biodegradable Products May Be Bad For The Environment Research from North Carolina State University shows that so-called biodegradable products are…
Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – Light and Heat
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Solar “light” radiation in = Earth “heat” radiation to Space out! That’s old news to those of us who understand all energy is fungible (may…
US Greenhouse gas emissions drop to lowest level in 15 years
As first highlighted by World Climate Report and later by WUWT last week: Now its your electric ice maker in your fridge that’s killing the planet, meanwhile CO2 emissions fall…
Now its your electric ice maker in your fridge that's killing the planet, meanwhile CO2 emissions fall significantly in the USA
Jeez Louise, what a load of bollocks from Time Magazine. The article goes on to say:
California's AB32 global warming law put on hold by judge
From the LA Times, some “climate justice” for the poor:
Congress looking to put the kibosh on GHG related taxes
Energy Tax Prevention Act Would Put the Reins on EPA Power Grab Freedom Action Supports Quick Passage Washington, D.C., March 10, 2011 —A House subcommittee on Thursday is expected to…
Methane, the other worrisome GHG – coming to a dairy farm near you
Via Eurekalert: Measuring methane Researchers develop technique to measure methane gas from cattle MADISON, WI, MARCH 1, 2011 – Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost,…
"Carbon confusion" in Indonesia
Via Eurekalert: Hotspots of carbon confusion in Indonesia threaten to warm the world more quickly Indonesia has promised to become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009,…
Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – A Physical Analogy
Guest post by Ira Glickstein Albert Einstein was a great theoretical physicist, with all the requisite mathematical tools. However, he rejected purely mathematical abstraction and resorted to physical analogy for…
The life and times of Carbon Dioxide
From the “fun with conjecture department”, another graduate school paper parroting the claim from NOAA’s Susan Solomon that excess man-made CO2 stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years. From…
Bait and switch; business as usual
Reading the headline and first paragraph of this press release from FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology one might think they are making a case for natural cycles.…
Dueling Hypotheses
The Trenberth article contains so many glaring errors and biased assumptions, it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, the difference between theory and hypothesis: The problem is…
Giant evil gaseous blob attacks San Diego, film at 11
What could it be? Something from Los Angeles? Robert Clemenzi tells us in comments:
CO2 sequestration 'splodes in Saskatchewan
From the “nobody could convince them it was a bad idea in the first place” department… UPDATE: More details now emerging – see below the read more line The Canadian…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Eat bugs, not meat, to "save the planet"
From Mongabay: Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal…
Climate Craziness of the week: a basic science question for NYT reporter Justin Gillis
Readers please note the story I ran earlier: NOAA: “the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable” This story talks about the ability of hydroxyl radicals in the free atmosphere to break…
New paper – "absence of correlation between temperature changes … and CO2"
WUWT readers may remember way back when…I posted this from Joe D’Aleo: Warming Trend: PDO And Solar Correlate Better Than CO2 Joe wrote then: Clearly the US annual temperatures over the…
It's official: Polar bear not an endangered species
The word comes from the Obama Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no less, and some enironmentalists heads are exploding right about now. This pretty well slams the door on…
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