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Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than previously expected.”
Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis: “A recently-published study by the U.S. Geological Services found steady or declining levels of pesticide in Corn Belt waterways from 1996 to 2006, despite record increases in per-acre yields. With increasing frequency, farmers are using advanced practices to reduce runoff and protect water supplies. This report shows that each year [...]
International Day of Climate Action focuses attention on calls for 350 part per million CO2 threshold
In California, U.S. Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) called on President Obama to go to Copenhagen and to reduce the level of carbon-dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere to 350 parts per million. The teleconference call with Filner, 350.org and the Citizens Climate Lobby was one of 4,000 events Saturday that called upon policy-makers to target 350 [...]
Researchers say climate change outlook is worse than expected, after integrating nitrogen cycle into climate models
In Tennessee, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change. To date, climate models ignored the nutrient requirements for new vegetation growth, assuming that all plants on earth had access to as much “plant food” as they [...]
Researchers find that reducing soot, ozone and HFCs, whle adding biochar, will push back catastrophic climate change by 40 years
In Washington, researchers led by Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Molina have found that the “dangerous threshold of 2?C warming” can be pushed back 40 years by reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons, as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production.
The scientists are reporting in the Proceedings of [...]
14 Brazilian groups band to form Brazilian Climate Alliance; aim is influencing policy leading up to Copenhagen
In Brazil, 14 organizations including the Brazilian Sugar Growers (UNICA) have banded to form the Brazilian Climate Alliance, which aims to influence Brazilian policy leading up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
Alliance members represent 28 percent of the nation’s energy mix and 16 percent of exports, and have issued a position [...]
Senators Kerry, Warner, Military Advisory Board link national security, energy security and climate change
In Washington, Senator John Kerry wrote in the Huffington Post: “Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and — yes — even to American national security.” He echoes a report, downloadable, from the Military Advisory Board , that describes climate change as “a threat multiplier for instability in [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “available observable data…invalidate the hypothesis that humans cause dangerous global warming.”
From Investor’s Business Daily: “Recently we commented on the plight of Dr. Allen Carlin, the EPA senior research analyst at the National Center for Environmental Economics…The EPA had been working on an “endangerment finding” that would say carbon dioxide, rather than being the basis for all life on earth, was a dangerous pollutant…Along came Carlin, [...]
IOP releases “Tripping Points” report on barriers to Copenhagen climate treaty
As preparation efforts advance for the Copenhagen meeting where a successor to the Kyoto Treaty will be finalized, IOP Publishing has published ‘Tripping Points: Barriers and Bargaining Chips on the Road to Copenhagen’. The paper discusses political barriers and bargaining chips which need to be overcome for countries to reach a consensus on how to [...]
UK PM proposes $100 billion global fund to ease emissions reduction costs for Third World
In the UK, prime minister Gordon Brown proposed the creation of an international $100 billion fund to distribute to Third World nations for alleviating the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The fund would be paid by sale of carbon credits. The proposal is aimed to break a logjam in international climate treaty talks, just [...]
US House of Representatives to vote today on climate change bill; issue in doubt; scramble for votes
In Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote today on the climate change bill. The biofuels industry got behind the bill this week after winning concessions on the implementation of international indirect land use change until more scientific evidence is gathered one way or another, and the agricultural industry community is pleased [...]
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