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Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

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Net positive RF (warming) contributions arise from CO 2 , water vapor, NO x , and soot emissions, and from contrail cirrus (consisting of linear contrails and the cirrus cloudiness arising from them). Both radiative forcing (RF) and effective radiative forcing (ERF) terms and their sums are calculated for the years 2000–2018.

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USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

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They recycled the catalyst over five runs without significant loss of activity (turnover number > 2000). Though mixed with water, the resulting methanol can be easily distilled, Prakash said. They demonstrated ease of separation of CH 3 OH by simple distillation from the reaction mixture. Credit: ACS, Kothandaraman et al.

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Analysis of drill cores links variations in CO2 40M years ago to changes in global temperatures; questions as to the source of CO2

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“Bijl et al.were able to calculate absolute CO 2 levels, indicating that the baseline level was already 1000 to 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in the Eocene (versus 390 ppmv today and 270 ppmv before industrialization).

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Honda launches new environmental leadership award “Green Dealer” program for Honda and Acura dealers in US

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Silver-level dealers must achieve a 10% reduction in total energy use, develop a water use reduction plan, and implement a comprehensive recycling program. —Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office. The program offers three achievement levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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C increase in warming of the Arctic since 1890 as well as significant melting of the Himalaya-Tibetan glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia, providing fresh water to billions of people. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of up to $26 billion annually. Earlier post.).

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Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

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Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall launch long-term initiative for CO2-free ironmaking for steel production

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Swedish-Finnish steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and power company Vattenfall have launched an initiative to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than carbon dioxide. Brindle (2000) “ Theoretical Minimum Energies To Produce Steel For Selected Conditions ”. Resources. Fortini H.W.

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