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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 21, 2009
Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. cancel the launch. “The
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 18, 2007
Yet another reason to think again about the ethanol craze in an article in today's LA Times. Of our "alternative fuel" options, only electricity can truly be made renewably (wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro), with no carbon or other noxious emissions. And only electric drive cars can operate truly zero-emission.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
If they meet all the pledges they've made for emission reductions by 2030, global temperature rise will be at 2.4° So, we focus significant energy on solar climate intervention, or sunlight reflection. The first is the moral hazard argument: If we embark on this research, it will undermine attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2009
Aerosols impact human health, due to their ability to penetrate deep into lungs, and impact Earth’s climate through the scattering and absorption of solar radiation and through serving as the nuclei on which clouds form, noted co-author Prof. Global isoprene emissions from plants are estimated at more than 500 teragrams each year.
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