http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carbon/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:26:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419565/posts Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades. The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419565/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419056/posts Most of the man-made CO2 caused by man does not remain in the atmosphere, it is absorbed by the oceans and continents. Only about 45% of man-made CO2 stays in the atmosphere. However, the global-warming moonbats have suggested the ability of oceans and plants to absorb CO2 recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of man-made CO2 emissions is therefore beginning to increase causing the amount of CO2 to increase also . Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. For the moonbats, understanding this number is important for predicting future climate change,... University of Bristo/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419056/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts BISMARCK, N.D.—North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he expects the state to file a lawsuit against Minnesota over its plan to tax carbon dioxide created by electrical generation. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission wants to add a fee of $4 to $34 per ton of carbon dioxide to the cost of electrical generation starting in 2012. The majority of electricity in North Dakota is generated by coal-fired power plants, which emit carbon dioxide. North Dakota officials consider it an unfair tax on electricity produced in the state and say it would discourage its use by Minnesota utilities. Pioneer Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416424/posts Bruised by the healthcare debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a Cap & Trade bill next year. “I am communicating that in every way I know how,” says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416424/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415719/posts What says holiday cheer better than a ton of carbon dioxide? Rebecca Young of Mountain View, Calif., recently opened her mail to find a gift from an old friend in New York City. “Carbon reduction certificate,” it read. It is good for three tons of carbon emissions that will be “retired” in her name so that no power plant will ever release them into the atmosphere. To some people, the certificate may be as welcome as a lump of coal. But Ms. Young, a marketing manager for the environmental Web site Care2.com, was delighted. “I don’t need stuff,” said Ms.... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415719/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:26:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts February 24, 2009, NASA's 280 million dollar Orbiting Carbon Observatory fell into the Antarctic after it failed to make orbit. Now, I'm not a Truther who believes 9/11 was an inside job produced by George Bush, nor am I certain BO is a U.S. citizen, but where there's smoke, there's fire from a burning birth certificate somewhere . . . NASA's carbon checking satellite was launched with the intention of definitively mapping the amount and effects of that evil atom, carbon, on the earth, which has alone been responsible for loading western universities with a non diversity of well funded... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415266/posts Aside from ideologues, hydrocarbon haters, Gaia worshipers, profiteers and power-grabbing politicians, most of the sentient world now realizes that the hysteria over global warming disasters is based on dubious to fraudulent temperature data, analyses, models, reports and peer reviews. Climate Research Unit emails, HARRY_READ_ME.txt computer memos, and blatant tampering with Australian, Russian, UK and US temperature data make the scandal impossible to ignore or explain away. They certainly helped Copenhagen descend into an expensive, carbon-emitting gabfest, and cause China and India to reject any deal that would force them to curtail their energy generation, economic growth and poverty reduction programs.... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415266/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413329/posts When can a Christmas gift be something extra special to a conservative and more like a lump of coal to a liberal? When it comes in the form of a book, "TIME TO EAT THE DOG? the real guide to sustainable living," by Brenda and Robert Vale. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413329/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412427/posts With President Obama barely back from the climate change conference in Copenhagen, his anti-global warming accord is evidently already working its wonders, unleashing a blizzard to blanket the East Coast with snow. With climate in the news, it’s a good time to review the Census Bureau study of the factor that will have the single greatest impact on U.S. carbon emissions over the next 40 years: immigration. With a couple of weeks left in the decade, the Census Bureau has finally gotten around to releasing What If? projections showing the impact of various immigration policies on America’s population (which is... Isteve http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412427/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:56:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412329/posts While the environmentalists and climate change cultists were freezing their butts off worrying about saving the planet because of global warming and atmospheric pollution caused by carbon dioxide, the planet itself didn't seem to want to be saved. Or maybe the planet has to destroy itself to save itself. Or something. Anyway, off in the Philippines, Mount Mayon volcano has had a total of 248 volcanic quakes and tremors since Monday. In a statement, Phivolcs director Renato Solidum explained that 50 of these events were explosion-type, wherein minor explosions produced volcanic earthquakes and tremors. "However, only seven were observed during... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412329/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408302/posts If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five-star hotels will have little to show for their efforts beyond a big, fat carbon footprint. The U.N. estimates 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference -- 90 percent of it from flights. The rest comes from waste and electricity related to transport to and from the conference center and lodging in and around the Danish city. Most of the leaders were flying either on commercial airlines or government-owned jets and Sweden... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408302/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408240/posts COPENHAGEN (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon said world leaders faced a "defining moment in history" as they balanced their nation's interests with a global clamour to halt the juggernaut of climate change. With just over three days left to broker one of the most ambitious, yet also fiendishly complex, deals in human history, conference chair Denmark appealed for all sides to embrace the spirit of compromise. But China and the United States -- the world's two biggest carbon polluters -- brushed aside European calls for concessions on emissions reductions, the thorniest issue of all. Related article: UN system to... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408240/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408094/posts Bears have been spotted in Denmark. And these aren’t the friendly kind who are just looking for picnic baskets. As IBD predicted last week, Russia’s claim to mountains of carbon credits has proved to be a major stumbling block at the international climate talks in Copenhagen. As the AP notes, it has given Russia the rare chance to seize the moral high ground. ... Under the Kyoto treaty, that gives it claim to massive amounts of tradable carbon credits. Russia wants those credits rolled forward before it signs on to any new international carbon treaty. Other countries aren’t keen on... IBD's Capital Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408094/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:47:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407364/posts COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 -- The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of more than half- -a-million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show. Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their travel and work will create 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from their flights. This would fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 2,300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians -- the vast difference is due to the huge... Reuters via National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407364/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404897/posts Duluth architecture firm donates $5,000 for credits to offset carbon from the Bentleyville light display duluth new tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404897/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:02:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404156/posts The European Union (EU) Emission Trading System (ETS) has been the victim of fraudulent traders in the past 18 months. This resulted in losses of approximately 5 billion euros for several national tax revenues. It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities. Indications of suspicious trading activities were noted in late 2008, when several market platforms saw an unprecedented increase in the trade volume of European Unit Allowances (EUAs). Market volume peaked in May 2009, with several hundred million EUAs traded in e.g. in France and Denmark. At... Europol http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404156/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:23:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403642/posts this is yet another end run around Congress by the most radical and corrupt President in our nation’s 233 year history. A total usurpation of our Constitution’s separation of powers. It violates the idea of checks and balances our founders built into government. This little ruling by the EPA gives them virtually unlimited power to regulate, literally, every facet of your life. By classifying CO2 and methane (among other so-called greenhouse gases) it can inject itself into just about every industry in the US. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403642/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403024/posts Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves. The clay-and-metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa, where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people. Four thousand miles away, at the Charles Hurst Land Rover dealership in southwest London, a Range Rover Vogue sells for £90,000 pounds. A blue windshield sticker proclaims that the gasoline-powered truck’s first 45,000 miles (72,421 km) will be carbon neutral. That’s because Land Rover, official purveyor of 4x4s to Queen Elizabeth II, is helping Ugandans cut... Economic Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403024/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:36:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402972/posts EPA, already accused of scientific misconduct, abuses its regulatory authority to enrich special interestsThe Environmental Protection Agency, whose mission is to protect people from toxic pollutants like sulfur and nitrogen oxides, today declared carbon dioxide--a gas that we all generate and exhale every few seconds--a hazard to human life that must be regulated. We have little doubt that the EPA abused its regulatory authority on behalf of, or even on the direct orders of, Barack Obama for the purpose of enriching investment banks--Kirsten Gillibrand named J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs as explicit beneficiaries of cap and trade mandates--whose executives,... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402972/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401576/posts CHEVRON has won a coup for its Wheatstone liquified natural gas development, signing up Tokyo Electric Power to a $90 billion supply agreement that will also see the utility take an equity stake in the project. TepCo has signed a heads of agreement for the annual delivery of 4.1 million tonnes of LNG for up to 20 years from Wheatstone, accounting for almost half of the initial yearly production capacity of 8.6 million tonnes. The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401576/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:39:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401422/posts With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth’s last chance, the carbon footprint of the global-warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate change meeting. Its organizers had hoped it would produce binding caps on emissions, global taxation to redistribute trillions of dollars and micromanagement of everyone’s choices. China, nimble at the politics of pretending that is characteristic of climate-change theater, promises only to reduce its “carbon intensity” — carbon emissions per unit of production. So China’s emissions will rise. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401422/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:01:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399087/posts Perhaps it is comforting to believe that science is an absolute discipline: immune from fads, fanatics and frauds, untroubled by extremists, evangelists, glory-seekers and bigots. But it is not. It is as vulnerable to the vested interests and biases of its practitioners as any corporate entity or political party. Uncomfortable truths are suppressed and dubious evidence given undue prominence. Nowhere is this more worryingly obvious than in the science of climate change. As a field of research it has become so heavily politicised that opposing views are spoken of in terms of religion: believers and non-believers, with the accent being... Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399087/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398055/posts SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government's plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue. The government's next step is unclear. Rudd... KMSB-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398055/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397205/posts Dr Pachauri raised the prospect of so-called geo-engineering, whereby carbon dioxide is actively stripped from the atmosphere. A range of techniques have been proposed including seeding artificial clouds over oceans to reflect sunlight back into space, sowing the oceans with iron ore to boost plankton growth and using carbon capture and storage technology to fix emissions from power stations . . . Dr Pachauri, speaking to The Times on Saturday before travelling to Paris to brief President Sarkozy, suggested that the fossil fuel lobby could be behind a hacking incident last month that led to the publication of thousands of... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397205/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:27:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395794/posts The NY Times this morning is running an Op-Ed piece which suggests that our government's policy toward ethanol production has been less than enlightened. Some of us arrived at this conclusion long ago. Georgie Cracks Corn I don't know how many State of the Union Addresses since 1973 have pledged commitment to energy independence, but to quote Jim Ignatowski when he was asked how many different illicit drugs he had ingested in his lifetime, it's "exactly a lot." It was still a surprise, however, when our current President touted ethanol last week citing the sustainability myth as just one of... Give n' Go http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395794/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:19:57 GMT