Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2020
Satellite image taken 16 January 2018 off the coast of Europe. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. —first author Michael Diamond, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric sciences. NASA Earth Observatory.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2020
This year’s Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions—the latest year for which data are available—rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. MMTCO 2 e (+0.2%) in 2018 compared to 2017. from 2017 to 2018 due to a strong growth in real GDP.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 5, 2023
It’s –27 °C, dipping below –40 °C with wind chill—well below the operating temperature of most of the commercial equipment we brought for this expedition. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Our phones, laptops, and cameras are rapidly failing.
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