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When will humanity ever hit the peak of its ever-growing carbon emissions?

sudshr47 December 7, 2018

We were duped.

Or, at least, we were given some false hope. In the three years between 2014 and 2016, global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels had finally stopped increasing and leveled out. Emissions weren’t yet going down — but there was the potential that they had peaked.

Perhaps, mused scientists, this was the fruitful beginning of humanity’s collective response to alter the course of history, and in doing so, avoid the mounting woes wrought by climate change.

But, no. With 2017 came news that emissions had ticked up. And, critically, the newly-released 2018 Global Carbon Budget Report shows that carbon emissions bumped up yet again in 2018, and are now at their highest levels on record. Read more…

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Another major U.S. climate report dropped. But you probably missed it.

sudshr47 November 30, 2018

You probably at least heard about the latest big U.S. climate report — even though the Trump Administration attempted to furtively release it on Black Friday. In the end the plan backfired, as many of the nation’s top newspapers highlighted the grim conclusions of the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

Yet, that same day at the same time, another major climate report dropped: the latest edition of the State of the Carbon Cycle Report, which marked its first-ever update, over a decade after the inaugural release.

The three-year effort, involving the input of 200 scientists and 13 federal agencies, underscores that the carbon emitted from U.S. fossil fuel burning is fast outpacing the planet’s natural ability store away this heat-trapping gas, leaving it to accumulate in the atmosphere. Read more…

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The first-ever U.S. fee on carbon is defeated, and Big Oil might be to blame

sudshr47 November 7, 2018

Washington voters have likely defeated what would have been the United States’ first-ever fee on carbon pollution.

Although votes are still being counted, on Tuesday night The Seattle Times reported that after officials tallied nearly 2 million votes from all the state’s precincts, 56 percent of voters opposed Initiative 1631 — the Carbon Emissions Fee Measure — which makes it exceedingly unlikely the law will pass.

If it did pass, the fee would have raised an estimated $2.3 billion in its first five years by leveling a fee on the state’s largest carbon emitters.

The defeated proposition faced unprecedented financial opposition from Big Oil, which organized a formidable campaign sponsored by the Western States Petroleum Association, an influential petroleum trade group. Read more…

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Climate deniers love to repeat this dead wrong talking point. Here’s how to refute it.

sudshr47 October 15, 2018

On Sunday morning, CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked U.S. Senator Marco Rubio whether he thought the changing climate on Earth today was “at least in part” caused by humans.

On live television, Rubio acknowledged that humans were partly responsible, and then immediately sowed some doubt into his answer.

“I think many scientists would debate what percentage is attributable to man versus normal fluctuations,” Rubio said.

This is misleading, at best, because there is no plausible debate.

In a variety of ways, scientists globally have repeatedly shown that the modern-day warming of our oceans and atmosphere is specifically attributed human activity — not volcanoes nor the sun. We’ve simply loaded the atmosphere with carbon-based gases that physically trap heat. Read more…

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Lime green energy: The electric scooter company wants to be carbon neutral

sudshr47 October 9, 2018

Lime, the electric scooter and bicycle company, wants to go “lime green” by becoming a carbon neutral business.

On Tuesday, Lime announced a partnership with NativeEnergy that will allow it to buy renewable energy credits to charge its fleet. Since people charge most of the scooters in their homes, Lime can’t completely control the company’s energy consumption.

Still, Lime will use renewable energy purchased from local utilities and NativeEnergy renewable energy projects to charge bikes and some scooters.

Lime will also buy carbon offsets to balance out the emissions that come from its operations and management fleet, like the trucks and other vehicles that go out to fix and replace damaged bikes and scooters. The company also said it wants to make its offices more energy efficient and that it’s exploring on-site solar energy as an alternative power source. Read more…

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Earth is the warmest it’s been in 120,000 years

sudshr47 August 27, 2018

The last three Julys on Earth have been the three warmest ever recorded. But, they may also be the warmest months to occur on our planet in about 120,000 years.

Following NASA’s recent announcement that July 2018 was the third warmest such month since reliable record keeping began in 1880, climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf, head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, pointed out that this last July — already infamous for scorching Arctic temperatures and record-breaking heat waves — was also likely one of the warmest months since the geologic period called the Eemian. Read more…

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Your international vacation is a whole lot worse for the planet than we thought

sudshr47 May 7, 2018

Tourism is unquestionably beneficial to both economies and anyone seeking to visit new lands.

However, your international vacation has a serious dark side.

A new study published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that vacationing actually releases far more climate change-inducing greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere than previously expected.

When taking into account not only the direct emissions from jet and automobile engines, but also the millions of supply chains needed to feed and support vacationers, researchers found that global tourism today generates 8 percent of the carbon we send into Earth’s atmosphere each year. Read more…

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Lyft offsets carbon emissions, but still relies on gas-guzzling cars

sudshr47 April 21, 2018

In an announcement not-so-subtly timed to Earth Day, Lyft proclaimed its ride service is now carbon neutral.

In the fight against climate change Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green explained this week that the San Francisco company was purchasing carbon offsets, making Lyft “one of the top voluntary purchasers of carbon offsets in the world.”

Instead of eliminating emissions from its vehicles, Lyft is participating in a program funding projects that reduce carbon emissionsCarbon Footprint, which works with businesses to manage their environmental impact, describes carbon offsetting as “a way to reduce the emissions that you can’t.” Read more…

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Global warming emissions hit record high in 2017, because nothing good happens this year

sudshr47 November 13, 2017

For three straight years, global greenhouse gas emissions — the primary driver of global warming — leveled off while economic growth continued. This led to a flood of optimism that at long last, greenhouse gas emissions were peaking and would finally start declining. In addition, it sparked a flurry of stories about how the world was finally separating, or to use a technical term “decoupling,” economic growth from emissions of greenhouse gasses.

Those hopes have largely been dashed with the news on Monday from the Global Carbon Project showing that it’s likely that 2017 saw about a 2 percent increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, with such emissions hitting a record high. Read more…

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