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MAY 1, 2012

Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change (2012) doi: 10.1038/nclimate1505. Credit: Liming Zhou et al., Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Ford has reported to the CDP on its successful efforts to reduce its carbon footprint since 2003. “Water, like climate change, is set to be a key issue for the 21 st century. During the same period, Ford cut energy use at its global facilities by 34% and CO 2 emissions by 44%.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

Moreira’s technology also helps to track the effects of climate change. While leading a research team at the DLR in the early 1990s, Moreira saw the potential of using information gathered from such radar satellites to help address societal issues such as sustainable development and the climate crisis.

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Cars That Think

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.

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. IEEE Spectrum interviewed Bertrand Piccard at a pivotal moment in the hydrogen-powered aircraft project, with the plane, called Climate Impulse , about 40 percent built.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NASA technique.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Relative contribution of major greenhouse gases to the overall change in radiative forcing between 1979 and 1984 (a) and from 2003 to 2008 (b). Since 1750, atmospheric CO 2 has increased by 38%, primarily because of emissions from combustion of fossil fuels, deforestation and land use change. Source: WMO.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The result implies that globally, cloud changes caused by particles from all forms of industrial pollution block 1 Watt of solar energy per square meter of Earth’s surface, masking almost a third of the present-day warming from greenhouse gases. The results also have implications for one possible mechanism of deliberate climate intervention.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

These findings, published in Nature Climate Change , are contrary to results of some earlier work on this subject. This is especially the case if the goal is to understand climate and rainfall variability at local to regional scales. Nature Climate Change (2011) doi: 10.1038/nclimate1327. Shih-Chieh Kao.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

per year since 2003, excluding the credit crunch years). With the present annual growth rate, China has returned to the lower annual growth rates that it experienced before its economic growth started to accelerate in 2003, when its annual CO 2 emissions increased on average by 12% per year, excluding the credit crunch years.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

By 2003, all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi were retrofitted to run on CNG; only new vehicles with CNG engines are now available. (Of and THC, less CO than PET-4S) and climate benefits (lower fuel consumption, less GWC than CNG-2S). Of the four-stroke vehicles, a subset also has functioning backup gasoline fuel systems.)

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JULY 17, 2014

The study also examined policy on low carbon fuels, where changes in direction and the complexity of fuel and infrastructure investments in general have provided a less stable investment climate for the companies concerned. billion (US$79 billion) in 2003. —“Investing in the low carbon journey”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

To discern whether this extensive CH 4 venting over the ESAS is a steadily ongoing phenomenon or signals the start of a more massive CH 4 release period, there is an urgent need for expanded multifaceted investigations into these inaccessible but climate-sensitive shelf seas north of Siberia. Shakhova et al. Natalia Shakhova.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Tags: Climate Change Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

Our relationship started about a month ago when we spent an evening together carpooling to a UCLA workshop on communication climate change that we both participated in. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# Diesel Fuel Emissions: A Public Forum - 2003. I dug Lillian right away.

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MAY 6, 2011

The award was part of $3,357,965 awarded by CEC for three research projects on low-carbon, alternative fuels, climate change and energy generation. million to investigate changing climate conditions that may affect energy generation and demand and to develop new climate scenarios specifically for California.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

London initially pioneered hydrogen buses in the UK when it took part in the Cleaner Urban Transport for Europe (CUTE) trial from December 2003 to January 2007. The buses are jointly funded by TfL, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the European Union via the Clean Hydrogen in Cities (CHIC) project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

A new comprehensive MIT study of the probabilistic projections of climate change in this century found that absent aggressive intervention, warming will likely be about twice as severe as previously estimated by the MIT model six years ago. This can be compared to a median projected increase in the 2003 study of 2.4

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MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The test is part of the development phase of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, an Office of Fossil Energy initiative launched in 2003 to determine the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing gases that can contribute to global climate change.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. The fact is, we’ve never come anywhere near cutting emissions five percent in a single year in a period of economic stability—and yet, in order to meet our climate goal by 2030, we have to.

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JULY 8, 2009

In 2003, 62% of the Arctic’s total ice volume was stored in multi-year ice, with 38% stored in first-year seasonal ice. Yi (2009) Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008. Tags: Climate Change Polar. By 2008, 68% of the total ice volume was first-year ice, with 32% multi-year.

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MARCH 11, 2009

The Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program was created in 2003 to determine which of numerous sequestration approaches are best suited for different regions of the country. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

To educate and motivate the public about the most accurate science facts and the best environmental practices, and to assist and partner with the City of Torrance and the South Bay Environmental Services Center to help the city meet state and county environmental standards/mandates in four key areas: 1. Climate Change / AB 32 Emissions Goals.

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MAY 10, 2012

Funding priorities through the AB118 program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Summary of previous, upcoming, and proposed funding (in millions). Source: CEC. Click to enlarge. These projects, in turn, have drawn about $375.5

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MARCH 6, 2018

percentage points lower than their peak in 2011, and the fuel type’s lowest market share since 2003, when diesels accounted for 43.4% —the highest level since 2003. In turn, diesel cars accounted for just 43.8% of total registrations in 2017, which is 11.1 of total registrations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

F), last measured in 2003, is the warmest the lake has been for a millennium and a half. Climate change models show a general warming in the region, which, if accurate, would cause even greater warming of the Lake Tanganyika’s surface waters and more stratification in the lake as a whole. —Andrew Cohen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. The characterization phase (2003–2005) defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage. The validation phase (2005–2009) generally involves small-scale field tests.

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JULY 6, 2020

Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and South Africa (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, although many experts say that the solution to our energy and climate problems is sending the correct price signals to industry and consumers, the transport sector’s behavior is highly inelastic in that it does not change significantly in response to changes in fuel prices, at least in the range that is politically acceptable.

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JANUARY 17, 2009

Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. One voice really can change the world. This driver told the press he loves his electric truck. People use them every day in every way to do what they need a small SUV to do.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The UK needs to implement a step change to reduce carbon emissions, the first annual report from the Committee on Climate Change concludes. The committee which is responsible for reporting annual emission reductions in the UK, states that in the five years between 2003 to 2007 emissions reductions averaged 0.5

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JULY 28, 2021

Faced with the rising threat of climate change, one of the government’s first major steps to combat dangerous levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the country was introduce the Congestion Charge. The London Congestion Charge was first introduced in 2003. You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2024

She was named a top businesswoman in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park area, and she made the 2003 Business Leader Impact 100 list. The IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society member has received several honors including the 2020 IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, which recognizes outstanding volunteer service to IEEE.

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MAY 23, 2025

Originally established in 2003 as a collaborative intergovernmental initiative to promote hydrogen as a clean energy solution, IPHE has positioned itself prominently within the global energy conversation, claiming neutrality and scientific.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 25, 2009

Around $176million will be invested over the next two years as the California Energy Commission adopts the Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan to encourage innovation and meet the state’s climate change policies.

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