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MAY 1, 2013

General Motors is the first automaker among 40 major US companies to sign a “ Climate Declaration ,” collectively asserting that responding to climate change is good business. The campaign is organized by sustainable business advocacy group Ceres and its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy, or BICEP, coalition.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of Michigan have mapped the annual flow of steel in the US, with the goal of achieving a detailed understanding of the flow to target increased material efficiency and the development of the circular economy. consumption pattern may represent a population-scaled surrogate model of the future global state.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

A study by researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) in Brazil, with colleagues at the Ohio State University, has found that the rising atmospheric concentration of CO 2 is beneficial for the physiology of sorghum, an economically and nutritionally important crop grown worldwide.

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MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone formation. In the other, emissions would be cut by 60-70%.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics. Investigator: Hongjie Dai, Chemistry.

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MARCH 17, 2022

There's a fair bit of talk about an AI race between China and the United States these days. When it comes to cross-country collaborations on publications, China and the United States produce more than twice as many as the next pairing, China and the United Kingdom. Universities Are Crawling With CS Students.

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JULY 23, 2011

Two researchers, respectively from the Centre for Climate Change at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom, have found that 80% of global climate data cannot be used by scientists in digital format.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 4, 2023

To solve the climate crisis, we need to cut this in half by 2030, and get to zero by 2050. For electricity generation, this means the United States alone needs to increase renewable-energy capacities by 10 times over the next 12 years , which roughly translates to a mind-boggling 400,000 more wind turbines and 2.5

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone. Bank of America can help move GCEP technologies to commercialization.

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MAY 28, 2009

Before this study, we didn’t know how fast that carbon could potentially be released from permafrost, and how this feedback to climate would change over time. Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada. Permafrost.

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JULY 8, 2013

Sponsored by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) will conduct aircraft observations to study the near-field evolution of changes in chemical, optical, and microphysical properties of aerosols generated in biomass burning events.

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health. Kaushal, S.S.,

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APRIL 24, 2018

Fermentation also produces a high-concentration (99%) gaseous CO 2 stream consisting only of CO 2 , water and small amounts of organic and sulfur compounds. The role for CO 2 removal envisioned in stringent climate change mitigation scenarios cannot be overstated. Earlier post.). Sanchez, Nils Johnson, Sean T. McCoy, Peter A.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

A coalition of 16 national hydrogen associations from around the world recently issued a joint statement addressed to Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, asserting that hydrogen technologies could help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

Although neither ice sheet is expected to melt completely anytime soon, their incredible scale makes even small changes consequential for the future of our planet. And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change. At the time, two U.S.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. In addition, this jump appears to occur between 1879 and 1915, a time of industrial change that may provide a direct link to human-induced climate change.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

In October the organization surveyed 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is a robotics and automation expert at Salford University , in England. Other scenarios involve maintenance procedures.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And it says the government should coordinate efforts to develop the AI technologies that will be key in the fight against global climate change. The United Kingdom could effectively lead the world for AI standards if its rules are strong and well-designed. (By And they are way too high-level to be helpful.

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MARCH 10, 2010

The United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of the Panel’s reports on climate change.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The Natural Gas Initiative has begun funding early stage, exploratory research, following a “seed grant” model used by Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, one of NGI’s hosting organizations.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle and that may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. VOCs can cause a variety of respiratory and other ailments and also contribute to smog and climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

In the United States, La Niña often signals drier-than-normal conditions in the Southwest and Central Plains regions, and wetter fall and winter seasons in the Pacific Northwest. White of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; It can persist for as long as two years. Masarie, P.

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MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The test was conducted utilizing a producing oil well in the Mission Canyon Formation, part of the Madison Group of Mississippian-age carbonate rocks in the western United States. The formation was a carbonate rather than clastic reservoir. Following 2 weeks of “soaking,” the well was placed back into production.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. The less-lucrative stabilization services balanced electricity load and generation to maintain system frequency at 60 hertz, the standard for the United States.

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APRIL 5, 2009

At least 10 major energy proposals that would provide incentives for energy efficiency, reduce gasoline usage and support alternative energy have the support of more than two-thirds of Americans, according to a new survey, “The Energy Learning Curve” released by Public Agenda, an opinion research and citizen engagement organization.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Locations of climate and weather station used in global. climate data analysis. Separately, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday. Comparison of land surface temperature trends, as analyzed by HadCRUT, NCDC/NOAA, and GISS/NASA climate data models, using land, ocean, and satellite-based records.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Dashed lines show US average emissions. Credit: ACS, Tessum et al.

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JULY 15, 2023

CFS has been working to establish additional suppliers in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and to develop manufacturing capabilities in-house, which will lay the groundwork for building fusion power plants in the future. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes.

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JULY 9, 2009

In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. case and ~43,500 for the 0.1% S, premature deaths are reduced by ~41,200.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. Member States,” says geographer. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. But that was an unusual year. million people. Following Spain’s SIVE experience, in 2011.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Converting oil shale to gasoline via the Alberta Taciuk Processor (ATP)—an above-ground shale retort—results in fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ~130-150 g CO 2 equivalent/MJ of gasoline produced, according to a new analysis by Dr. Adam Brandt at Stanford University. These emissions are 1.5 Brandt, 2009.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic material on earth. Studies have consistently shown that biofuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass could be produced in the United States in a sustainable fashion and could replace today’s gasoline, diesel and jet fuels on a gallon-for-gallon basis. —Chuck et al.

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