Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:45:04 +0000
DNV has released it latest energy transition report, in which peers into the future on topics like peak oil and EV sales.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:00:54 +0000
Methane is so hot right now. Well, it’s making the world a lot hotter, because it’s a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and we’ve been increasing the amount we’re dumping into the air. That’s not a good kind of hot. The United States is the worst emitter … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:58:33 +0000
For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:22:33 +0000
The fossil fuel industry has a multi-billion-dollar plan to build new LNG (liquified natural gas) terminals in the Gulf of Mexico near the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. One of the reasons for building those terminals is a claim that LNG results in fewer carbon emissions than burning coal, so … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:14:18 +0000
How much are you willing to subsidize the government and prop up the fossil fuel industry? Governments across the world now spend a total of $2.6 trillion per year on subsidies that harm the environment, jeopardizing global climate and biodiversity targets. The public should not be paying at the pump … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:20:06 +0000
California has passed a new amendment that adds to its original plastic bag ban. The state banned single-use plastic bags beginning in 2016 but allowed thicker “reusable” plastic bags to be sold for a 10 cent fee. Officials there thought that the original legislative design, with a few caveats, would … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:20:42 +0000
A year ago, I was having fun with the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet, a tragicomedy in six parts. One of the many enactments of this tragicomedy had left Act 5, where the hydrogen fleet is permanently parked. The provincial government of Quebec quietly returned roughly 50 fuel cell cars … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:37:08 +0000
China’s electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. The USA? Not so much.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:55:01 +0000
The last coal-fired generating station in the UK has been shuttered, an act that could have international implications.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:41:50 +0000
The free rider problem in climate action arises when some countries or actors benefit from the efforts of others to mitigate climate change without contributing their fair share. Since the atmosphere is a global common good, actions taken by one country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions benefit the entire world, … [continued]
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