Climate warms the Earth, not chance

...contributor. And if anthropogenic global warming, driven by the profligate combustion of fossil fuels over the last two centuries, is fed into the calculations, then the probability becomes quite high:...
Posted On 14 Aug 2017
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Growing risk of extreme heat and humidity

...zone. As water vapour rises from irrigated farmland, in heat extremes which are likely if humans go on burning ever-greater quantities of fossil fuels, then air temperatures and moisture conditions...
Posted On 06 Aug 2018
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To avoid climate catastrophe, we’ll need to remove CO2 from the air. Here’s how.

...dent in the climate-disrupting overabundance of CO2 that has built up in the air since humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest 150 years ago. Lackner is one of hundreds,...
Posted On 14 Aug 2017
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Smarter renewables open up new markets

...of generating electricity, from wind and sun, were once thought technically feasible but too expensive to compete with fossil fuels. Advances in technology, though, and economies of scale have meant...
Posted On 10 Jul 2018
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Rising sea levels come at steeper cost

...in decades to come because of fossil fuels already burned, to release ever greater proportions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Paris in 2015, 195 nations vowed to contain...
Posted On 02 Mar 2018
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Climate stabilization: Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions

18/05/2017 Growing plants and then storing the CO2 they have taken up from the atmosphere is no viable option to counteract unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning, a new study...
Posted On 18 May 2017
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Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

...This is pretty much what the UK, France, Germany and Canada together spilled into the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion over a 10-year period. “We’ve found one of the most...
Posted On 17 Mar 2020
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Here’s How to Build a Successful Renewable Energy Supply Chain

...sustainability. Demand for fossil fuels may not peak until almost 2030, but after a certain point, it will be like squeezing blood from a stone. Companies must appreciate this fact...
Posted On 09 Aug 2021