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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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This would mean that the climate system is close to entering if not already within the zone of “dangerous anthropogenic interference” (DAI). “We Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author From Molina et al. Madhava Sarma.

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California cumulative PEV sales at 13.4% of 2030 goal; true ZEVs at 7.6%

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As part of California’s AB 32 climate change program, Executive Order B-48-18 administratively created a goal of 5 million zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on California roads by 2030. This action expands on the prior Executive Order B-16-2012, which set a goal of 1.5 million by 2025. Combined, these were down a point to a 5.7%

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Ford poll finds Europeans want freedom of car ownership, but worry about traffic, cost of driving, environment

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53% say climate change is the world’s biggest problem. 72% say fuel efficiency is one of the areas they consider most when buying a car. 53% say climate change is the world’s biggest problem. 72% say fuel efficiency is one of the areas they consider most when buying a car.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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What Is a Heat Pump?

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Instead, go buy yourself a commercial “air-source” heat pump, which will warm your home using the very same principle. The ratio of the heat released into your home to the energy sent into its electrically driven compressor is referred to as the coefficient of performance , or COP for short. Don’t actually do this, of course.

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Where Minus 35 Is Perfect Weather to Get Outside

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But with climate change making the snowpack unreliable, dog-sled races have run into some difficulties. After dinner, take in live music most weekends down the block at the Westminster Hotel , which locals lovingly refer to as the Pit. Dickson said, referring to the green curtains of light waving above.

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Report argues advanced HD natural gas vehicles foundational for California to hit air and climate goals; near zero-emission potential

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These “technology forcing” requirements, which direct manufacturers to phase-in sales of battery-electric vehicles or large transit fleets to buy zero-emission buses, have not resulted in the commercialization of zero-tailpipe emission vehicles as quickly as air quality regulators hoped or planned for. Hybridization.

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