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Mitsubishi Motors expects to distribute, on a maintenance lease basis, some 1,400 i-MiEV units in fiscal 2009 principally to corporations and to local authorities. In addition, it is targeting a cut in global lineup CO 2 emissions by a weighted average of 50% over 2005. The production i-MiEV. Click to enlarge. Transmission.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes the existing field, in production since 2005, and appraisal drilling of the Mad Dog South field in 2008 and 2009.

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Among the report’s national findings: The proportion of workers commuting by private vehicle—either alone or in a carpool—declined in 99 out of 100 of America’s most populous urbanized areas between 2000 and the 2007-2011 period averaged in US Census data.

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Emissions in 2011 were 526 million metric tons (9%) below the 2005 level. Since 1949, the 2011 decline in coal generation of more 6% is second only to the decline in 2009 of almost 12%. As recently as 2005, coal’s share of electric power sector generation was more than 51%. The commercial sector fell slightly (0.3%).

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Credit: Solomon et al., Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has appointed Masato Katsumata to the position of Senior Vice-President of Research & Development (R&D), effective 1 February 2009. He started his career as a chassis engineer before making the shift to product planning in 1993 and product management in 2000.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Global surface temperature anomalies (degrees F) for the month of September 2009. NCDC scientists also reported that the average land surface temperature for September was the second warmest on record, behind 2005. below the 1979-2000 average, and the 13 th consecutive September with below-average Arctic sea ice extent.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

NO x emissions limits for diesel vehicles have been tightened as follows (all application dates to new emission type approvals, application to all new vehicles always 1 year later): January 2000: 500 mg/km (Euro3). January 2005: 250 mg/km (Euro 4). September 2009: 180 mg/km (Euro 5). September 2014: 80 mg/km (Euro 6).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

trillion passenger kilometers (pkm) in 2005, to 4.1 The Chinese are increasingly taking to the roads, with driving distances rising from 262 billion pkm in 1990 to 1.351 trillion pkm in 2009, slightly more than a fivefold expansion. Still, US car travel is down slightly from its peak of 4.3 trillion pkm in 2008.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000. By 2005 Toyota was producing more than 100,000 vehicles annually for the US market. With more than 107,000 sales in 2005, Prius became the third-best selling Toyota passenger car in the US after the Camry and Corolla.

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JULY 11, 2009

New Envisat images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea’s shoreline from 2006 to 2009. This animation shows the shrinkage from 2006 to 2009. By 2000, the Large Aral Sea had split into two: an eastern and western lobe. 1964 , Argon satellite photo. 1987 , Landsat.

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Herbert Kroemer Nobel Laureate Life Fellow, 95; died 8 March Kroemer, a pioneering physicist, is a Nobel laureate, receiving the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed and opto-electronics. In 2005, he funded the construction and running of the Dr. K.R.

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rate from 1995 to 2005 but higher than the 0.7% average annual growth rate from 2005 through 2012. Since 2000, VMT per licensed driver for the population under 20 has dropped by 13%. The Reference case in AEO2014 assumes that VMT per licensed driver begins to increase after 2018. —below the 1.7%

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. This is more than twice the figure from this sector in 2005, however, most of the increase is attributed to some new and better information. Overall, indications are that emissions from industrial sectors have increased again since 2005. Source: UNEP.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. A new climate modeling system, forecasting average temperatures over a decade by combining natural variation with the impacts of human-induced climate change, projects that at least half of the 10 years following 2009 will exceed the warmest year currently on record. per year from 2000-2007.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At the time the article was written, the emissions levels of the most intense reference scenario, known as A1FI (A1, Fossil Intensive), had already been outpaced by actual global GHG emissions by 2005, despite international emission reduction efforts such as the Kyoto Protocol. I don’t actually see how they can keep their cities going.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009

On average, fuel efficiency has remained flat on a seat-km basis and improved only 0.29% annually on a ton-km basis since 2000. s (2005) finding that other performance attributes, notably speed and range, were prioritized over fuel efficiency during the transition from piston-driven to jet aircraft during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan estimates—based on the findings of AR4—that the CO 2 emissions of all new vehicles in 2050 would need to be reduced by 90% compared to the 2000 level. During FY2007 and FY2008, per-unit CO2 emission from all the Nissan plants was globally reduced by 10% (compared to 2005 level). Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus. From 2001 to 2005, he served as president of the International Speech Communication Association. Boehm’s honors included the 2000 IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

LCIC scientists have been monitoring air pollution in Norwich since 2005 as part of the Civitas programme. The bus will make its first public showing at LCV 2009, at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire on September 9 and 10. The Civitas Initiative exists to promote cleaner and better transport in Europe’s cities.

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In addition, oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20% to 36% of US oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8%, according to the Dialogue ’s first report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply. times the average for fuel consumed in the United States. mbd by 2030, according to the report.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. emissions in 2005. Key policy-relevant scientific uncertainties related to BC. Source: EPA.

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While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Probability distribution for the committed warming by GHGs between 1750 and 2005. 2009), reproduced from Ramanathan and Feng (2008) Click to enlarge. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of up to $26 billion annually. From Molina et al. It also lowers crop yields.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

All of the recessions listed above were caused by oil except the early 2000 recession that was caused by September 11th, 2001. The Early 2000 recession was caused by the events of September 11th, 2001 and this was the mildest recession of any of the ones listed on this page. During this time they raised interest rates.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. The first conference, “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change”, was held in 2005 at the Met Office in Exeter, and focused on pathways to climate stabilization at or below 2 degrees Celsius. Synthesis Report From “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, And Decisions”, 2009. [

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MARCH 13, 2009

The researchers compared the visibility data to available satellite data (2000-2007), and found it to be comparable as an indicator of aerosol concentration in the air. This differs from studies recently cited by the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change showing global emissions of sulfate aerosol decreased between 1980 and 2000.

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APRIL 10, 2010

The program limits, or “caps,” carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from large fossil-fuel-fired electric generating units, with the goal of stabilizing emissions from 2009 through 2014 to a level roughly equivalent to recent historical emissions. RGGI took effect and began regulating CO 2 emissions on January 1, 2009.

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JULY 19, 2009

Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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APRIL 16, 2009

iMiEV Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle by Noel Adams Mitsubishi has been showing a number of electric cars at auto shows starting in Tokyo back in 2005, they didnt show the most recent iteration, the one that will be the production version, until the 2007 Frankfurt Auto show. The cars are also being fleet tested in Japan.

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