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Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

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There has been little recent research into the emission durability of these new fleets, and in this paper, we examine some recent and historical emission data from the Seattle and Chicago area to obtain a picture of how current livery vehicle emissions compare to the rest of the fleet and examine their importance to fleet emissions.

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Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. Source: Bond et al. Click to enlarge. W m -2 (+0.17 W m -2 range).

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLIX)

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And they were front-drive luxury cars according to The Seattle Times. Contrary to what the press said, the LS was of course rear-drive and did not arrive until model year 2000. As the luxury SUV was the future and the PLC was the past, Lincoln announced the Mark VIII was canceled after the 1998 model year.&

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Despite a Slight Recovery in 2009, Arctic Sea Ice Remains on Downward Trend

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square kilometers) below the 1979-2000 September average, according to the report. Only 19% of the ice cover was more than two years old—the least ever recorded in the satellite record and far below the 1981-2000 summer average of 48%, according to the CU-Boulder report. This was 409,000 square miles (1.06

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Study projects thermoelectric power in Europe and US vulnerable to climate change due to lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures

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Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge. A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e.,

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Warming Climate Threatens California Fruit and Nut Production

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Girvetz, who is now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington, Seattle. To provide accurate projections of winter chill, the researchers used hourly and daily temperature records from 1950 and 2000, as well as 18 climate scenarios projected for later in the 21 st century. Minghua Zhang.

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Five Dead, Two In Critical Condition From Fire at Tesoro Refinery

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Tesoro’s Anacortes refinery is located about 70 miles north of Seattle on the Puget Sound. In the second edition of the book Petroleum Refinery Process Economics (2000), author Robert Maples notes that US refineries rank highest in complexity index, averaging 9.5, In 1998, it purchased the Anacortes Refinery from Shell.