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China's Urban Billion: Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases
2013-09-11 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Chinas Urban Billion is a blog series exploring Chinas urbanization process. Xiaomei Tan guides readers through Chinas opportunities and challenges as the country transforms into an urbanized society. She examines the urbanization process as it relates to governance, the private and public sectors, and the economy. This piece originally appeared on TheCityFix.com. Consumption of energy in Chinese cities has risen faster than all other sectors over the last 20 years, including the industrial,...
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09.11.13 -- Increased Greenhouse Gases And Aerosols Have Similar Effects On Rainfall
2013-09-10 10:04:59| pollutiononline Home Page
09/11/13Pollution Online Newsletter
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Increased Greenhouse Gases And Aerosols Have Similar Effects On Rainfall
2013-09-06 05:08:20| pollutiononline News Articles
Although greenhouse gases and aerosols have very distinct properties, their effects on spatial patterns of rainfall change are surprisingly similar, according to new research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols Have Similar Effects on Rainfall, Study Shows
2013-09-02 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Despite their many differences, greenhouse gases and aerosols play a similar role on spatial patterns of rainfall change, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The discovery is based on experiments carried out using three different state-of-the-art climate models and was led by researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. According to the study's authors, each model revealed...
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Californias unusual plan to cut greenhouse gases
2013-08-21 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Californias S.B. 375 was passed in 2008, there were many skeptics. The law aimed to get metropolitan regions around the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions through changes to development form and transportation. (If it were a country, California would rank somewhere between the world`s 10th and 12th largest economy, so its effect could be significant.) In 2011, the California Air Resources Board set GHG emissions reduction targets by metro region for passenger vehicles (passenger vehicles...
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