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Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects - International Herald Tribune
Public discussion of complicated climate change is largely reduced to carbon: carbon emissions, carbon footprints, carbon trading. But other chemicals have large roles in the planet's health, and one that a growing number of other researchers are also concentrating on, is nitrogen.
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ABC News: Corrosive Oceans: Carbon Emissions Threaten Ecosystem
Excess carbon dioxide turns seawater into carbonic acid. Scientists report the ocean's new acidity worldwide is crippling sea creatures in their efforts to form their shells and skeletons, to breathe, to move and catch prey, and to reproduce and mature.
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » Hypermiling–still a great idea
I’ve made no secret of my love for what I call “mild hypermiling”, by which I mean employing just the safer practices. Some of the things people do in their quest for ever more miles/gallon (like drafting behind 18-wheelers) are just plain nuts, so I don’t do them and I definitely recommend that others don’t even consider them. Life is short enough as it is.
But back on topic–why should you hypermile? I mean, isn’t it work? And isn’t it less fun than driving like a typical American (a.k.a. a bat out of hell on acid)? Honestly, the answers are no and no. Once you give it a try and see that you’re pouring less money into your gas tank and dumping less CO2 and other pollutants into the atmosphere, then it becomes profitable, and it’s even a nice little challenge to make your driving more interesting.
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Cquestrate : The Idea
When you put lime into seawater it absorbs almost twice as much carbon dioxide as is produced by the breaking down of the limestone in the first place.
This has the effect of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It also helps to prevent ocean acidification, another problem caused by the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
If done on a large enough scale it would be possible to reduce carbon dioxide levels back to what they were before the Industrial Revolution.
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Can undersea rocks cure global warming? | Machines Like Us – Science News
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other sources.
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Carbon capture and storage
CSS consists of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) as it is released into the atmosphere, compressing it and then pumping it back into depleted oil and gas fields or other safe underground chambers
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate concerns halt coal plant
The US state of Georgia has blocked construction of a new coal-fired power station because of concerns over its carbon dioxide emissions
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Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air - GreenUpAndGo.com
Scientists in Arizona have invented a machine which can suck CO2 out of the air - but still at v. low quantities...
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Forget Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is often touted as the answer to the coming energy crisis. Not so, and this paper by Amory Lovins explains just why.
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Information on cars’ CO2 emissions
A site which rates cars by their CO2 emissions
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Global Warming: CO2 Map Shows Hi-Res View of Global Warming Culprits
A high res amp and video showing where CO2 is emitted from on the continental US
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