Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

ºC above normal, based on the 1971-2000 average, and that 2009 will be tied with 2002, 2003, and 2006 as the third highest record since 1891. In general, land surface temperatures rose everywhere except parts of North America and central Siberia. Temperature anomalies from mean 1971-2000 instrumental record, with.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The past year was a small fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest on record, putting 2009 in a virtual tie with a cluster of other years—1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007—for the second warmest on record. January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record. Tags: Brief. James Hansen, GISS director.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures. Tags: Climate Change Policy.

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

An Argonne researcher reached consensus with researchers from other national labs, universities, the Air Resources Board, automakers, utilities and AD Little to estimate in July 2002 that PHEVs using nighttime power reduce greenhouse gases by 46 to 61 percent. Tags: evdriven. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon. Why Pay More for a PHEV?

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. Its also the Chinese city most like America, because people who live here have come from elsewhere in search of a better life. Tags: evdriven. "Its a completely different business model." 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. Tags: evdriven. " The feds arent convinced.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41