http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/greenhousegases/ en-us Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:43:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114555/posts WASHINGTON – Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that's got scientists concerned about accelerated global warming. The gases are methane and nitrogen trifluoride. Both pale in comparison to the global warming effects of carbon dioxide, produced by the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels. In the past couple of years, however, these other two gases have been on the rise, according to two new studies. The increase is... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114555/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:43:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094213/posts People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns. The report, by the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Surrey, also says total food consumption should be reduced, especially "low nutritional value" treats such as alcohol, sweets and chocolates. It urges people to return to habits their mothers or grandmothers would have been familiar with: buying locally in-season products, cooking in bulk and in pots with lids or pressure cookers, avoiding waste and... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094213/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:45:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086005/posts DALLAS (Sept. 19, 2008)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are harming the environment, according to comments filed this week by Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. The EPA is considering whether it should be regulating greenhouse gas emissions and whether the Clean Air Act is an effective way to do so. "Using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases is not at all what the law was intended to do," Burnett said. "You're seeing a lot of regulation without any results." According to Burnett, laws intended to... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086005/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:53:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076677/posts People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further. His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning. The Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076677/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:40:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049983/posts Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day, says the Heartland Institute. While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists oppose the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place. According to Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner, who is leading the research team: Producing a large number of CO2 scrubbers can keep to a minimum any rise in atmospheric CO2 without the economically painful elimination of inexpensive... ncpa.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049983/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:58:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043938/posts Opponents of massive new energy taxes and regulations breathed a small sigh of relief last month when the Lieberman-Warner climate-tax bill went down in flames on the Senate floor. Even 10 Democrats broke from the party line and voted against it, writing that they would have opposed the bill on final passage. Unfortunately, power-mad bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency remain undaunted. The EPA is expected today to release a document that blueprints a dizzying array of greenhouse-gas regulatory programs under dozens of different provisions of the 1970 Clean Air Act. The document, called an “Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,”... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043938/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:28:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2023180/posts The global warmers are becoming increasingly desperate to prop up their failing prophesy in every way possible. Behaving just as Leon Festinger predicted in When Prophecies Fail. As the earth shows no net warming in a decade and cooling into its 7th year, as new models suggest cooling may continue because of natural ocean cycles, as the sun stays quiet now 12 years since the last solar minimum, usually a signal of cooling, as more and more peer review calls into question the importance of CO2 and of the the accuracy of the models and the entire greenhouse theory because... ICECAP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2023180/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 21:04:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014298/posts Estonian authorities have slapped a flatulence tax on farmers to compensate the country for the methane gas produced by cows. Farmers this week received their first 'fart tax' demands asking them to pay for the greenhouse gases their cattle produce. Ananova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014298/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 04:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012694/posts OSLO (Reuters) - Canada will be investigated on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a U.N.-led fight against global warming, official documents show. Canada played down the news, saying it was taking quick steps to ensure it complied by the rules. Ottawa could be suspended from rights to trade carbon dioxide if found to be in breach of the rules by the enforcement branch of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. Greece was suspended last month, the first state to face such a sanction. "On 5 May 2008 Canada was given an official notification of... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012694/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 22:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011413/posts In the community of Shady Grove Woods, trees are becoming more and more scarce. Residents and other anti-Intercounty Connector activists marched through the neighborhood on Saturday, pointing out the trees that were cut down to make way for the six-lane highway. ‘‘It’s just that we didn’t have a say in it in so many ways and we’re not talking about a two-lane road, we’re talking about a major highway running through here,” resident Sam Chim said of the ICC. ‘‘We have a lot of nice, private woods back here and now we’re going to have a highway running through instead.... The Montgomery Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011413/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 13:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2007909/posts Did NASA's James E. Hansen commit perjury when he testified before House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 19, 2007? Ferenc Miskolczi had previously informed NASA that the equations being used to predict catastrophic global warming were invalid. Yet Hansen told Congress that "greenhouse gases" posed a serious threat. "The predominance of positive feedbacks, along with the inertia of the oceans and ice sheets, has profound practical implications. It means that if we push the climate system hard enough it can obtain a momentum, it can pass tipping points, such that climate changes continue, out of our control.... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2007909/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002505/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. The president also called for putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants within 10 to 15 years. "To reach our 2025 goal, we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power sector greenhouse gas emissions so that they peak within 10 to 15 years, and decline thereafter," Bush said in excerpts of the speech released early by the White House. breitbart.com via AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002505/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976915/posts (02-26) 04:00 PST Washington - Washington - -- A senior Environmental Protection Agency staffer's newly released memo warned that EPA chief Stephen Johnson would lose his credibility and might have to resign if he rejected California's rules limiting greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.The document, prepared by a top deputy in the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, is further evidence of the fierce internal struggle that Johnson faced before he ruled against California in December. Documents released earlier revealed that he overruled the unanimous opinion of his agency's legal and technical staff, who urged him to approve the... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976915/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:40:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975345/posts If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming. The scientists, F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr., are proposing a concept, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom, for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline. The idea is simple. Air would be blown over a liquid solution of potassium carbonate, which would absorb the carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide would... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975345/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954162/posts If you haven't done so already, meet the Nano, possibly the most significant new car of the decade. Small, cute, and snub-nosed, it fits four people and a duffel bag, has a single windshield wiper, travels at 60 mph, and it's all yours for the princely sum of $2,500, roughly the same price as the DVD system in your neighbor's Lexus and about half the price of the cheapest cars on the market today. Even better, at least for the philosophically minded, the Nano comes with its own moral conundrum: What happens when the laudable, currently fashionable movement to improve... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954162/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:19:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951455/posts SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 10 (OneWorld) - Coastal residents and students from all over South Carolina are planning to picket this evening's Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate. "We just want to emphasize how important the issue of climate change is to the future of South Carolina," said Gretta Kruesi of the state's Coastal Conservation League. "Climate change will affect the strength and number of hurricanes, beach erosion, and tourism, which is the backbone of our economy. We want to make sure the candidates address this issue and invite them to respond." Sporting surfwear and bathing suits, attendees plan to hold aquamarine... oneworld.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951455/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:29:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943603/posts Dallas, TX - The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is expected today to debate amendments to a bill proposed by Sens. Lieberman (I-CT) and Warner (R-VA) that would create a "cap and trade" system designed to cut total U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet an expert with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) says the cap and trade system would slow economic growth with little if any environmental improvement to show for it. "Back in 1997 the Senate took the sensible position that the U.S. should not adopt any climate treaty that would either harm the economy or that... PublicWorks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943603/posts#comment Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:31:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941818/posts The energy bill to be signed by the president today is arguably the worst piece of energy legislation ever enacted into law. It will substantially increase the price of automobiles, increase highway fatalities, increase fuel prices, worsen air pollution, and force consumers to buy products (like super-efficient light bulbs) that they manifestly -- and for very good reason -- do not want to buy. It will transfer huge amounts of wealth from the consumer to the farm lobby in the course of promoting a dubious product -- ethanol -- that will make energy supplies less reliable and greenhouse gas emission... Cato Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941818/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:12:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1940487/posts As NewsBusters reported, Nobel Laureate Al Gore made a fool out of himself at the United Nations climate change meeting in Bali Thursday by chastising America for having the exact same global warming policy the Clinton administration had when he was vice president in 1997. Marvelously, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton was on Fox News the following day speaking inconvenient truths about the Global Warmingist-in-Chief that sycophantic media members disgracefully refuse to share with the citizenry. With that in mind, get your popcorn ready, kick your feet up, and listen to the facts about this issue spoken in a fashion... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1940487/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:46:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1937227/posts Those who spend much time in greenhouses know that they are often very humid places because water evaporates from plants and from surfaces that get wet when the plants are watered. Meteorologists typically refer to the water vapor content of the air as relative humidity which is how close the air is to holding as much water vapor as it can hold at its current temperature. Unfortunately many climatologists waste so much time on the nonexistent impact of radiation on air temperature that they don't provide sufficient emphasis to the significant impact of water vapor on air temperature. Those who... Reason McLucus Blog on The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1937227/posts#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:48:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937218/posts California researchers plan to make biofuels in a novel way that doesn't involve food crops or microbial fermentation. A new research effort involving three University of California campuses and West Biofuels LLC, will develop a prototype research reactor that will use steam, sand and catalysts to efficiently convert forest, urban, and agricultural "cellulosic" wastes that would otherwise go to landfills into alcohol that can be used as a gasoline additive. "We have a very feasible design to combine individual components of technology that have been proven separately into a successful biomass processing prototype," said Robert Cattolica, leader of the research... University of California - San Diego via ScienceDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937218/posts#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:11:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934073/posts I was rereading the essay by Dr, Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner and found this account of an experiment R.W. Wood conducted in 1909 that disproved the claim about greenhouses being hotter because they trapped radiation. <<I have always felt some doubt as to whether this action played any very large part in the elevation of temperature. It appeared much more probable that the part played by the glass was the prevention of the escape of the warm air heated by the ground within the enclosure. If we open the doors of a greenhouse on a cold windy day,... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934073/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:09:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924391/posts Why do they buy the nonsense about alleged greenhouse gases causing dangerous global warming? The claim about the power of greenhouse gases sounds like magic and the evidence for “global warming” is of little value. Those who talk about global warming claim a 0.5 C (1 F) increase in what they call the global average temperature indicates the earth is getting warmer. You don’t have to be a mathematician or physicist to recognize that one temperature cannot represent every place on earth from frigid polar regions to blazing deserts. Nor can a single temperature represent year round conditions in temperate... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924391/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914659/posts Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia. Since the industrial revolution, much of the CO2 we have released into the atmosphere has been taken up by the world’s oceans which act as a strong ‘sink’ for the emissions. This has slowed climate change. Without this uptake, CO2 levels would have risen much faster and the climate would be warming more rapidly. A paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research by Dr Ute Schuster and Professor... EurekAlert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914659/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:22:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913656/posts The State of Kansas has denied a permit to build two coal powered electric plants to Sunflower Electric. The state of the art plants would use flue gas to grow algae which could be used for biofuels or animal feed. The complex near Garden City would include an ethanol plant. Local officials favor the plant. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment denied the permit because of carbon dioxide emissions even though the algae would actually reduce CO2 emissions. The denial won't adversely affect growth in the Kansas economy because the Kansas economy isn't growing that much anyway and the... London telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913656/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:18:41 GMT