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  • Joe Biden eyes emissions crackdowns, media warns he is ‘ignoring industry warnings’ of financial collapse

    02/08/2024 7:52:31 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/08/2024 | Jack Hellner
    Today, Joe Biden is cracking down on manufacturing, but I bet he doesn’t have the scientific data to give credibility to the new policies, but he doesn’t care. He is bending over for the green pushers. Here’s this, from Fox News:Biden’s latest climate rules crack down on manufacturing, ignoring industry warnings of economic devastationBiden admin’s actions will ‘grind permits to a halt for a large portion of our country’The Biden administration finalized regulations severely tightening restrictions on fine particulate matter that the manufacturing and energy sectors are legally allowed to emit, an action that industry said would have devastating economic...
  • EPA moves to toughen standards for deadly soot pollution

    01/07/2023 1:36:40 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 31 replies
    Associated Press ^ | January 6, 2023 | Matthew Daly
    The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. A proposal released Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency would set maximum levels of 9 to 10 micrograms of fine particle pollution per cubic meter of air, down from 12 micrograms set a decade ago under the Obama administration. The standard for particle pollution, more commonly known as soot, was left unchanged by then-President Donald Trump, who overrode a scientific recommendation for a lower standard in his final days in office....
  • Rockets in the Stratosphere

    09/04/2021 3:31:04 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 18 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Saturday, September 4, 2021 | Gwynne Dyer
    The typical rocket launch dumps the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere as one airliner does in the course of a trans-Atlantic crossing If you’re worried about your ‘carbon footprint’ - a concept foisted on the world in 2004 by British Petroleum to persuade people that their own behaviour, and not giant oil companies like BP, is causing the climate problem -- then you definitely should not sign up for a sub-orbital space flight. Besides, you probably can’t afford it ($250,000 pp). Millions of people can afford it, however, and since the Branson/Bezos ‘space race’ last month tickets for...
  • Eco-Imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism

    03/21/2013 11:14:05 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2013 | Paul Drissen
    Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new 54.5 mpg standards for cars and light trucks. She’s also been implicated in the agency’s practice of using fake emails to hide questionable dealings and activities. These issues highlight attitudes toward ethics, law and public policy that prevail at EPA and too many other government agencies. However, that attention should not distract from other important matters. Ms. McCarthy may be the worst of the...
  • Smoke Responsibly And Roll Coal The Right Way With These Truck Modification Options

    07/11/2014 7:58:51 AM PDT · by rktman · 44 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 7/10/2014 | Emma Colton
    Conservative truck owners have a new way to rebel against environmentalists and the government’s obsession with carbon footprints: tricking-out diesel pickups with coal stacks that spew black smoke. Called “coal rollers,” these smoky renegades use their sweet chimney stacks to smoke-out hybrids by emitting black exhaust into the atmosphere. Here at The Daily Caller, we are going to give you the basics on how to modify your pickup, so every hybrid driven by some guy in a pink Argyle sweater will know exactly where you stand.
  • Scientists Say Cut Soot, Methane to Curb Warming [If at first you don't succeed...]

    01/15/2012 6:49:52 AM PST · by upchuck · 37 replies
    ABC Noose/Ass Press ^ | January 12, 2012 | SETH BORENSTEIN
    An international team of scientists says it's figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide. They say the key is to reduce emissions of two powerful and fast-acting causes of global warming — methane and soot. Carbon dioxide is the chief greenhouse gas and the one world leaders have spent the most time talking about controlling. Scientists say carbon dioxide from fossil fuels like coal and oil is a bigger overall cause of global warming, but reducing methane and soot offers quicker...
  • IPCC: Half of Renewable Energy is Wood, Charcoal, and Animal Dung

    05/11/2011 9:08:40 AM PDT · by wewillnotcomply · 9 replies
    climatequotes.com ^ | 5-11-11 | Sam Patterson
    The IPCC recently released the Summary of a report about renewable energy. Both Pielke Jr. and Donna Laframboise have mentioned it, and once the final report comes out at the end of the month I'm sure we'll hear more about it. However, in looking over the report I was stunned to find out what the IPCC considers as renewable energy (RE). This story at Scientific American covers it very well. I recommend reading it. Here's the problem. The IPCC has different categories of renewable energy. They include solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, ocean, and biomass. Biomass is by far the largest...
  • Scientists say soot a key factor in warming

    07/28/2010 10:31:13 AM PDT · by Bulwinkle · 31 replies · 5+ views
    SF Chron ^ | 7/28/10
    The evidence of mounting pollution by carbon particles in soot has been inadequately counted in international government debates over policies to cope with the warming problem, according to Stanford's Mark Z. Jacobson, leader of the university's Atmosphere and Energy program and a professor of civil and environmental engineering..... And because soot absorbs sunlight as it falls on ice and snow and radiates back to Earth from clouds and layers of the atmosphere, it is the major reason for rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic region, he said.
  • CA: State finds extra $3 million for Port truckers, but angry drivers say it's too little, too late

    12/31/2009 9:08:05 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 816+ views
    Oakland Tribune ^ | 12/31/09 | Cecily Burt
    State air regulators found an extra $3 million Wednesday to help more Port of Oakland truckers buy new diesel filters for their rigs, but that did not stop more than 450 independent drivers from filing a lawsuit to block a state-mandated emissions deadline that will put them out of work on New Year's Day. Approximately 1,200 mostly independent drivers who haul cargo in and out of the port will not be able to enter the gates starting Friday. They applied for grant funds to install new diesel filters on their rigs but were rejected because a $22 million pot to...
  • Soot warming 'maybe bigger than greenhouse gases' - NASA

    12/15/2009 9:56:07 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 53 replies · 1,388+ views
    The Register (UK) ^ | 15th December 2009 12:16 GMT | Lewis Page
    Forget Copenhagen CO2 cuts, tune your diesel properly Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, also the home of famous carbopocalypse doom-prophet James Hansen, have repeated earlier assertions that atmospheric soot may be as important as greenhouse gases in driving global warming. This could be good news for humanity, as atmospheric soot levels would be much easier to reduce. Filtering soot out of exhausts from diesel engines and coal burners is simple compared to removing and sequestering CO2, and as an added benefit the effects would be rapid: soot doesn't persist in the atmosphere for long periods the way greenhouse...
  • Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

    04/16/2009 3:00:47 PM PDT · by neverdem · 29 replies · 988+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 16, 2009 | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
    KOHLUA, India — “It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts, each containing a mud cookstove pouring soot into the atmosphere. As women in ragged saris of a thousand hues bake bread and stew lentils in the early evening over fires fueled by twigs and dung, children cough from the dense smoke that fills their homes. Black grime coats the undersides of thatched roofs. At dawn, a brown cloud stretches over the landscape like a diaphanous...
  • Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US (report written by scientists with NASA and NOAA)

    09/04/2008 3:36:20 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 226+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/4/08 | Seth Borenstein - ap
    WASHINGTON – Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.
  • They've got that global warming thing down cold (In 1975 icecaps were to be covered with soot)

    07/26/2008 7:48:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies · 139+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | 7/23/08 | GLENN GARVIN
    They've got that global warming thing down coldPosted on Wed, Jul. 23, 2008 By GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com • Penn & Teller's Bull----! 10-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Showtime I've seen lots of things on Penn & Teller's Bull----!, television's only investigative-journalism program run by comic magicians: Hidden-camera pranks where yuppie fools blather on about designer water that actually came from a garden hose. New Age health nuts allowing mollusks to crawl around on their faces to soak up the health benefits of slug slime. Naked people floating around in a zero-gravity chamber for a show on NASA. I don't actually know what...
  • Soot vs. CO2: The climatology upset

    09/16/2007 10:16:17 AM PDT · by leebert · 7 replies · 351+ views
    Overturning the conventional theory that airborne soot emissions cause regional cooling it has been found that brown coulds of airborne soot can contribute to 50 percent of atmospheric heating that had been previously blamed on CO2 emissions. Because of the worldwide scope of airborne soot - such as the vast Asian Brown Clouds - atmospheric models that ascribe certain regional warming trends only to CO2 may need revisiting. The lead researcher in this study, Prof. V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institute commented, "The conventional thinking is that brown clouds have masked as much as 50 percent of the global warming...
  • Clearing the Air: Up against a deadline

    01/14/2007 3:58:18 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 7 replies · 538+ views
    Dallas Morning News ^ | January 14, 2007 | Dallas Morning News
    Elected officials, business leaders and environmental watchdogs, invited by the editorial board, recently met at The Dallas Morning News to discuss clean air issues. This is the first of three excerpted transcripts from the roundtable. The speakers quoted: Colleen McCain Nelson, editorial writer; Margaret Keliher, Dallas County judge through 2006; Richard Greene, regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency; Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen's Texas office; Jim Schermbeck, Downwinders at Risk board member; Todd Campbell, director of public policy for Clean Energy and mayor of Burbank, Calif.; Al Armendariz, assistant professor, SMU School of Engineering; Robert Cluck, Arlington...
  • Volcanoes Helped Slow Ocean Warming Trend, Researchers Find

    02/13/2006 10:34:10 AM PST · by cogitator · 17 replies · 573+ views
    Terra Daily ^ | 01/13/2006 | Staff Writers
    Ocean temperatures might have risen even higher during the last century if it weren't for volcanoes that spewed ashes and aerosols into the upper atmosphere, researchers have found. The eruptions also offset a large percentage of sea level rise caused by human activity. Using 12 new state-of-the-art climate models, the researchers found that ocean warming and sea level rise in the 20th century were substantially reduced by the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia. Volcanic aerosols blocked sunlight and caused the ocean surface to cool. "That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for...
  • China Warns Of Five-Fold Increase In Air Pollution In 15 Years

    10/25/2005 8:20:07 AM PDT · by cogitator · 39 replies · 1,115+ views
    TerraDaily ^ | 10/24/2005 | AFP
    China's rapid economic growth and industrialization is posing a major challenge to the environment with air pollution likely to rise five-fold in 15 years, officials warned Monday. "In the future 15 years, the population of China will reach 1.46 billion and the GDP will double, the pollution load will increase by four to five times according to the present resource consumption rate and pollution control level," said Zhang Lijun, vice minister of China's environmental agency SEPA. Zhang was speaking at an air pollution conference organized by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), the US Environmental Protection Agency, the environmental directorate...
  • California mulls emissions plan for big trucks

    07/13/2005 2:08:24 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 271+ views
    San Diego Union -Tribune ^ | 7/13/05 | Leonard Anderson - Reuters
    SAN FRANCISCO – California air-quality regulators are considering a requirement that big-rig trucks install computer systems to pinpoint on-the-road emissions problems, a move that could spur a change in federal rules. The California Air Resources Board, or ARB, is expected to vote on July 21 on what would be the first such regulations in the United States for heavy-duty trucks, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency is likely to approve a similar rule, the ARB said. California, the most populous U.S. state, often leads the way on environmental policy, and cars and light trucks in the state already face similar...
  • U.S. Pollution Drops

    04/28/2005 4:36:31 PM PDT · by Brian328i · 12 replies · 373+ views
    Live Science ^ | 28 April 2005 | Ryan Pearson
    LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Fewer Americans have had to breathe unhealthy levels of smog or microscopic soot in recent years, but air pollution remained a threat in counties where more than half the nation lives, the American Lung Association said in an annual report Thursday. Using data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the group found that the number of counties in which unhealthy air was recorded fell significantly for the first time in six years, to 390 from 441 in last year's report. The new report covered 2001 to 2003, while the previous one analyzed pollution levels from 2000...
  • Massive air pollution casts Asian haze over global climate

    12/08/2004 10:49:23 AM PST · by cogitator · 64 replies · 1,337+ views
    Space Daily ^ | December 12, 2004 | AFP
    Massive air pollution casts Asian haze over global climateA cloud of pollution which has been identified in the skies across Asia travels long distances across the Indian ocean and is now threatening to make the entire planet a drier place, experts warned Wednesday. "There is a nexus between local air pollution and global climate change," Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, senior programme specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme, told the annual "Better Air Quality" conference at a meeting in the home of the Taj Mahal. "Research suggests that there will be a large drying-out effect from the air pollution we see now....