photo: Steve Gibson/photohome.co.uk via flickr There’ve been lots of attempt to calculate the true climate change cost of globalized shipping of goods on a nation-by-nation basis, with divergent results based upon where the boundaries are drawn. A new attempt at that from the University of Manchester says that carbon emission… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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UK Carbon Emissions From Shipping Six Times Higher Than Reported: New Study
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photo: Alan Strakey via flickr A new paper in the journal Nature explains what happened during the mid-twentieth century to halt the ever-increasing global temperature rise that continues to this day. Rather than warming in the Northern Hemisphere being stopped by a greater build-up of air pollution as had been supposed, the researchers say an unexpectedly a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century
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photo: John Norton via flickr A perfect example of how the cost of electricity from fossil fuels isn’t fully represented by the price on our bill: A new report from the Clean Air Task Force shows that in the United States particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, not to mention about 9,700 additional hospitalizations and some 20,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills
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The Arctic Ocean one year ago to this date. Photo: US Geological Survey via flickr Perhaps you don’t need more convincing that whether a given year sets a new record or not Arctic sea ice is on the decline, but maybe you do: Climate Progress highlights a study in
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Arctic Sea Ice At Lower Levels Than At Any Point in Past 100,000+ Years
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photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say
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photo: Duncan Harris via flickr Despite a Congressional mandate directing the Export-Import Bank of the United States to use 10% of its 2009-2010 financing towards renewable energy project, according to a US Government Accountability Office report the Bank will fall “well short of the 10% Congressional target”–as in only spending 2% on renewables. In fact right now in may back nearly 9 gigawatts of humungous coal-fired power plants in India and South Africa…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Govt May Back 9 GW of Coal Power Plants in India & South Africa, When It Should Support Renewables
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photo: Lingaraj GJ via flickr Back in March, Dr Rajendra Pachauri was cleared of alleged financial misconduct related to his work as chair of the IPCC. Pachauri had been accused of improperly profiting from his work in an a since-retracted article in The Telegraph, but an audit carried out by KMPG completely exonerated him. Well,
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IPCC Chairman Cleared of Any Financial Misconduct, Again
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photo: Agustín Ruiz via flickr Following up on my recent post on more eco-friendly was of measuring progress than GDP , I came across a recent post by renowned ecological economist Herman Daly over at the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy ‘s blog. Daly talks about framing the classic economic concept of opportunity cost in a modern environmental context. This… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are the Benefits of Further Economic Growth Worth More Ecological Destruction?: Herman Daly
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photo: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo via flickr TreeHugger has covered the uncomfortable and largely under-publicized topic of peak coal on a number of occasions, but David Roberts over at Grist just brought it up again–and it’s a topic certainly worth revisiting as the future implications are great. I’ll take the question out of R… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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There’s A Lot Less Coal Out There Than We Think – But That’s Not Civilization’s End
photo: Rob Lee via flickr Lots of environmentally bad stuff is happening as the world’s permafrost melts, mostly in the realm of releasing stored greenhouse gases. But, as Conservation points out, a new report in the journal
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Permafrost Melting Releases Mercury Into Swedish Lake
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