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Amateur corrects NASA’s statistics

16th 2007f August, 2007, Jon

The Guardian has reported how meteorologist Stephen McIntyre noticed errors in NASA’s calculations of global warming trends which were used to enforce the idea of climate change in Al Gore’s environmental film An Inconvenient Truth.
It claimed that 1998 was the hottest day in US history when in fact 1934 was two hundredths of a degree [...]

Onboard car emissions monitor

9th 2007f August, 2007, Jon

A team from the University of Manchester have used laser technology to create components that accurately monitor levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane directly from your car’s exhaust. Although still under development, it is readily available and expected to be incorporated into on-board diagnostics systems so that drivers can monitor emissions as they [...]

Carbon Finance Europe 2007

8th 2007f August, 2007, Peter

Environmental Finance’s conference on Carbon Finance in Europe will be held in London on 11-12 October 2007. See information here.
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London Leading

19th 2007f June, 2007, Jon

The carbon market is bound to be led by the British capital. According to The Times, London has dealt with 60% of all carbon traded worldwide so far.
“International Financial Services London (IFSL), the ginger group for the City, said that Britain’s share of the market had developed to the point where it dwarfed that of [...]

“Green is the new Black”

8th 2007f May, 2007, Peter

Well, that’s the view of the folks over at Wall Street and Technology, who have an article about the efforts of financial firms to reduce the amount they spend on electricity for their (typically ginormous) computer processing facilities. It seems that electricity is powering the information age, as well as having powered [...]