The Bush administration is working towards a new goal for helping developing nations to reduce their carbon emissions: a US plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 is hoping to include some of the world’s largest emitters in a scheme forcing them to try to reduce emissions as far as possible in exchange for [...]
According to the folks at The New Carbon Cycle:
“In what may be the first payment for mandatory greenhouse gas emission reduction credits or “carbon credits” in the United States, ConocoPhillips agreed to pay around $10 million to offset greenhouse gas emissions that will be emitted by the expansion of its Bay Area refinery. On Tuesday, [...]
Oil industries use a technique to improve recovery rates from mature oil wells by injecting CO2 into the oil fields, which reduces the viscosity of the oil allowing them to raise output tremendously. EnCana has contracted with the Great Plains Synfuel power plant to ship the CO2 that it creates to the oil fields where [...]
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 [...]
The popular US TV thriller series, “24″, is aiming to be carbon-neutral in its production of the final episode of the next season, according to this article in the Washington Post. The good green citizen can then watch it with a clear conscience, I suppose.
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