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MAY 1, 2012

Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change. —co-author Somnath Baidya Roy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Liming Zhou et al., Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). University of Maryland Visibility Database.

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JULY 6, 2020

Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and South Africa (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems. —Simmonds et al.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

These findings, published in Nature Climate Change , are contrary to results of some earlier work on this subject. This is especially the case if the goal is to understand climate and rainfall variability at local to regional scales. This information was provided in 1-by-1-degree spatial grids by the India Meteorological Department.

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MAY 6, 2011

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) $2 million to establish the California Initiative for Large Molecule Sustainable Fuels (CILMSF). The award was part of $3,357,965 awarded by CEC for three research projects on low-carbon, alternative fuels, climate change and energy generation.

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MARCH 5, 2010

A section of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane (CH 4 ) is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. Shakhova et al.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

By 2003, all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi were retrofitted to run on CNG; only new vehicles with CNG engines are now available. (Of and THC, less CO than PET-4S) and climate benefits (lower fuel consumption, less GWC than CNG-2S). The mean fuel-based PM 2.5 emission factor (mean (95% confidence interval)) for CNG-2S (14.2

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AUGUST 3, 2011

National planners’ enthusiasm for the species rubbed off easily on research organizations and Universities that rely heavily on the Planning Commission for funding and some of these institutions themselves became partners in raising Jatropha plantations.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change. candidate at Stanford University, launches Peregrine at Norway’s Slakbreen glacier. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018.

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MARCH 24, 2010

The team drew their conclusions by comparing data from NASA’s Gravity and Recovery Climate Experiment satellite system, or GRACE, with continuous GPS measurements made from long-term sites on bedrock on the edges of the ice sheet. This animation depicts the spread of ice loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE from 2003 through 2009.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at the Arctic University of Norway have discovered a growing Arctic abiotic methane- and methane hydrate–charged sediment drift on oceanic crust in the deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean. —Joel Johnson.

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JULY 28, 2021

Faced with the rising threat of climate change, one of the government’s first major steps to combat dangerous levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the country was introduce the Congestion Charge. The London Congestion Charge was first introduced in 2003. You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that.

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JULY 8, 2009

Scientists from NASA and the University of Washington in Seattle conducted the most comprehensive survey to date using observations from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ( ICESat ) to make the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover. Tags: Climate Change Polar.

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MARCH 11, 2009

The Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program was created in 2003 to determine which of numerous sequestration approaches are best suited for different regions of the country. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Earlier post.).

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The number of vehicles on the road in India has nearly tripled in the past decade, with 130 million vehicles on the road in 2013 compared to 50 million in 2003, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation. Based on these numbers, the 5.6 million metric tons (6.2

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. The scientists also applied this analysis to archived air samples taken from urban sites in central California between 2003 and 2005. —John Christensen.

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MAY 23, 2009

Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. The characterization phase (2003–2005) defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage. The validation phase (2005–2009) generally involves small-scale field tests.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Obama noted that last year, US oil production reached its highest level since 2003 and that for the first time in more than a decade, imported oil accounted for less than half the liquid fuel consumed. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003. Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. Named flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs), these automobiles run on gasoline, ethanol, or any blend of the two.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, although many experts say that the solution to our energy and climate problems is sending the correct price signals to industry and consumers, the transport sector’s behavior is highly inelastic in that it does not change significantly in response to changes in fuel prices, at least in the range that is politically acceptable.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. (GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.) Click to enlarge. “

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. It had only carried out one such investigation since then, into the 2003 Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. It had only carried out one such investigation since then, into the 2003 Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The situation is unlikely to get better anytime soon, for three reasons. We think there’s a better way.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle.

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MAY 17, 2010

A team of researchers led by Brown University has found that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa—the second-oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world—has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. F), last measured in 2003, is the warmest the lake has been for a millennium and a half. —Andrew Cohen.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. He knew very little about making cars but proved to be a quick study.

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APRIL 21, 2009

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Some answers on consumer expectations and daily performance should come out of evaluations of the prototypes to be conducted at the Irvine and Berkeley campuses of the University of California that will begin later this month.

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