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The EEF, the organization that represents the UK manufacturing industry, will today urge the Government to reject the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee, which it says would saddle the country with unrealistic targets that are much more demanding than anything faced elsewhere in Europe. It said the committee’s “carbon budget”, published before Christmas, would [...]
Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, or DMS, goes into the atmosphere, where it leads to water droplet formation – the basis of clouds that cool the Earth. In [...]
Climate change threatens far more than our environment. It’s already led to the spread of infectious diseases and respiratory ailments across the globe and contributed to thousands of deaths through heat waves and other extreme weather events. It’s even fueled recent revolts in the Middle East and North Africa. That’s according to Dan Ferber and [...]
Confusion and division over “global warming” often grows out of the meaninglessness of the phrase on its own. The result is that people with very different world views, in essence, create their own definitions of the term. (This is a point long made by Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia, and is a [...]
Those visitors will spend the day in one of the most beautiful, but most polluted cities in Europe. The weather will be great for sunbathing, but bad for anyone with a pre-existing respiratory or heart condition who spends time in central London. We are in the midst of a pollution episode which is likely to [...]
With just three holiday-packed weeks left until the start date for the first nationwide regulations on greenhouse gases, U.S. EPA is rushing to finish a set of small rules that are intended to make sure the program goes off without a hitch on Jan. 2. Within the past week, the agency has sent two rules [...]
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