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New study on Holocene conundrum suggests need for reexamination of both proxy data and climate models

Green Car Congress

The Holocene temperature conundrum has important implications for understanding climate change and evaluating climate models, as well as for the benchmarks used to create climate models for the future. It could partly be a model problem because of some missing physical mechanisms. —Zhengyu Liu. —Zhengyu Liu.

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Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did

Baua Electric

Albanese succeeded a string of right-wing Liberal prime ministers, including most recently Scott Morrison, who was criticized for, among other things, taking a vacation to Hawaii while his country was on fire due to a climate change-exacerbated brush fire. Australia’s commitments are currently rated as “insufficient.”

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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See Appendix G for a speculative picture of how a 15-year transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Hawaii can be accomplished.) This helps to explain the climate changes we are now experiencing. Frank (2012) Electrification of Taxi Cabs in Major Chinese Cities with Range Extended Electric Vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Larry Burns, GM vice president for research and development and strategic planning: "Whether your concern is energy security, global climate change, natural disasters, the high price of gas, the volatile pricing of a barrel of oil and the effect that unpredictability has on Wall Street - all of these issues point to a need for energy diversity. (

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