je.st
news
Tag: carbon
Amount Of Carbon Dioxide In Our Air Just Reached New Record, And Scientists Are Worried
2014-07-01 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: On Monday, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration`s Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii told Climate Central that June would be be the third month in a row where, for the entire month, average levels of carbon dioxide were above 400 parts per million (ppm). In other words, that`s the longest time in recorded history that this much carbon dioxide has been in the atmosphere. The finding is troubling to climate scientists, several of whom told ThinkProgress on Monday that the...
Tags: air
amount
record
reached
Meat-based diets linked to significant carbon footprints
2014-07-01 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Meat-eaters diets have a much larger carbon footprint than vegan, vegetarian and pescatarian diets, a new study published in the journal Climatic Change has found. The study said that high meat diets have more than double the amount of the greenhouse gas emissions than the average vegan diet. It also mentioned the majority of Britons are high meat consumers and argued that reducing the amount of animal-based products in the diet represents an achievable way for an individual to reduce their...
Tags: significant
linked
carbon
diets
U.S. Fracking Has 'Cut Carbon More Than The Whole World's Wind And Solar'
2014-07-01 07:13:58| oilandgasonline Home Page
Fracking in the US has led to a greater reduction in carbon emissions than all the wind turbines and solar panels across the entire globe put together. This is the stark fact presented at a meeting at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week.
St. Marys Carbon receives Aerospace Certification
2014-07-01 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
St. Marys Carbon recently received its AS9100 Aerospace Quality System Certification following an intense nine-month process.<br /> <br /> As a global supplier and manufacturer of carbon and carbon-graphite, St. Marys Carbon now has the opportunity to work with aviation, space and defense organizations while having a positive impact to the community in the form of new, higher skilled jobs.<br /> <br /> "Typically what this means for us is more jobs, more stability for the company," said James ...
Tags: certification
carbon
receives
aerospace
UK's pioneering low carbon heating scheme helps just 79 households
2014-06-30 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The much-delayed government scheme to encourage Britons to switch to low-carbon heating has helped just 79 homes install renewable heat technologies in the two months since it launched, it has emerged. Greg Barker, the climate minister, trumpeted the scheme as the first of its kind in the world when it was launched in April, but already there are fears it will go the way of the green deal the governments energy efficiency programme that achieved very low take-up. The renewable heat incentive...
Sites : [358] [359] [360] [361] [362] [363] [364] [365] [366] [367] [368] [369] [370] [371] [372] [373] [374] [375] [376] [377] next »