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New method details contributions of climate change & natural variability to rapid Arctic ice loss

Green Car Congress

The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change. The idea that natural or internal variability has contributed substantially to the Arctic sea ice loss is not entirely new.

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

Green Car Congress

The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. But wind turbines convert wind to power at the wind speed cubed.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth Geoengineering—altering the planet to mitigate the worst effects of climate change—is an idea that has taken on new currency of late. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

Creative Greenius

As the Creative Greenius and organizer of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group that’s just unacceptable to me. We began sharing our ideas with the Mayor in early January and it was obvious he was not just open to listening, but wanted to actively engage with us. He also confirmed his support for a 350 CO2 target.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

Cars That Think

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. Transcript. It’s only been done on a pilot level.

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The origins of NDEW and DEED

Plug in America

It all started with President Barack Obama and as DEED begins, we’re taking the opportunity to briefly revisit the tale, with a related nod to the mother of climate change policy, as former Sen. Gavin Newsom (then San Francisco’s mayor), Washington Gov. But how did NDEW come about? Fran Pavley is well known.

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