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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. Their study appears in Global Change Biology. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9

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FAA launches new Center of Excellence for alternative jet fuels; $40M in funding over 10 years

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. Research and development efforts by the team will focus on NextGen environmental goals for noise, air quality, climate change and energy.

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Researchers show oil palm plantation expansion a significant source of CO2; projected to contribute more than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions by 2020

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Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1702. Curran, Gregory P. Asner, Alice McDonald Pittman, Simon N.

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New study on Holocene conundrum suggests need for reexamination of both proxy data and climate models

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The Holocene temperature conundrum has important implications for understanding climate change and evaluating climate models, as well as for the benchmarks used to create climate models for the future. It could partly be a model problem because of some missing physical mechanisms. —Zhengyu Liu.

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Constant Ratio Of Airborne To Absorbed CO2 In Carbon Cycle May Indicate Resilient Carbon Sinks

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average of Mauna Loa (Hawaii) and the South Pole (thin solid line), and two ice cores: Law Dome (dashed thin line) and Siple (dotted thin. Source: Wolfgang Knorr, Bristol University. A lack of accounting for feedback effects is considered to be a potential weakness of many current climate models. Click to enlarge. per decade.

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Study projects net cooling of climate from ship emissions through 2050

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This continued shorter-term cooling response caused by certain emissions does not negate the necessity for reductions in CO 2 emissions, which are crucial to limiting the long-term warming impact of the sector, the researchers cautioned.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

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My clients included HP, Universal Pictures, Washington Mutual, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Tyco Toys, Tangle Toys, Playmates Toys and others who kept me busy year round. Having seen “Inconvenient Truth” the year before I was driven to work on climate change and related environmental issues.