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Analysis of Arctic Sediments Show that Late 20th Century Warming is Unlike Natural Variation; Unprecedented Change

Green Car Congress

An analysis of sediment cores from an Arctic lake indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring there are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Earlier post.) 0907094106.

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Biofuels surge under Obama?

Plugs and Cars

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Corporate sponsors have an outsized influence on universities these days. UC is doing consumer studies today that exclude battery electric cars but include hybrids and fuel cell vehicles.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

Wrote eight screenplays no one wanted to turn into movies, but kept studying and developing my talents as a writer and kept plugging away. My wife’s boss gave me a job as a magazine editor for the American Portrait Society in 1981, and I became known in the figurative art world which was a blast while it lasted.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. There's a Carnegie Mellon study that looks at how many people today could charge an electric car at home. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. There's a Carnegie Mellon study that looks at how many people today could charge an electric car at home. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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