Tag Archives: Carbon Dioxide

Earth’s ocean currents are crucial to the stability of nearly every ecosystem, playing a major role in transporting heat, sequestering carbon, and driving precipitation patterns. However, as climate change melts icecaps and warms surface waters, these currents begin to alter and weaken, threatening the stability of countless systems. There are …

Pressure is mounting on governments convening at the COP27 climate summit to deliver an ambitious outcome. Leaders will work on taking action to achieve global climate goals as outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. One area that scientists say needs to be prioritised is how to reduce methane emissions, as …

Russell Cook is an unpaid advisor to Heartland regarding the origins of false ‘industry corruption’ accusations leveled at global warming “skeptics.” Among those occasional contributions is “Merchants of Smear,” which was published as a Heartland Policy Brief in 2014. In 2013, Heartland created the bare-bones online structure for his GelbspanFiles.com …

The science of climate change isn’t new – the greenhouse effect was first suggested centuries ago. But when were we first warned about the dangers of global warming? Over the past decades, scientists from James Hansen to Charles Keeling to Exxon have raised the alarm in every way you could …

The market for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is expanding rapidly, as major tech companies are funneling nearly a billion dollars to early-stage startups that are experimenting with various methods of carbon capture and sequestration to fight climate change. While government incentives like carbon pricing will ultimately be necessary …

There’s a climate change policy that governments have been debating for decades. The USA recently even tried (and failed) to have the words removed from the latest IPCC report (AR6 WGII). This policy is: “Loss & Damage”. Also called “Climate Reparations”, Loss & Damage is a way of seeking climate …

These are unusual ways people have fought climate change. In 2021, Young Henry’s Brewery in Australia used green beer to help the environment. Also in 2021, scientists in Northern Ireland did their best to reduce methane emissions by altering what is put in cattle feed. In 2020, biologist Eric Dinerstein …

We’ve been warned about climate change for many decades. So what’s been stopping us from acting?! Well, in part, the lies of fossil fuel companies. These lies have taken many shapes: doubt; denial; delay and greenwashing. Now, three bodies of evidence show the shady reality of climate change misinformation. Support …

2022 is expected to be another year of calls to deliver on carbon-cutting pledges, and inevitably of more climate disasters around the world. TRF’s Climate Change Editor, Laurie Goering, looks ahead at 3 ways to put the world to be on the right path towards fighting climate change. Subscribe: https://www.bit.ly/3L0j2Ro …

Head to https://linode.com/scishow to get a $100 60-day credit on a new Linode account. Linode offers simple, affordable, and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. Plants may be useful tools for sequestering carbon, but if we don’t get started on the process immediately, they might be far less effective than …