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US carbon emissions rose 2 percent in 2013 after years of decline
2014-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's energy sector rose about 2% in 2013 after declining for several years, federal energy officials reported Monday. The reversal came because power plants last year burned more coal to generate electricity, after years in which natural gas accounted for an increasing share of the nation's electricity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the analytical branch of the Department of Energy. Though the 2013 figures are not final, once...
US carbon emissions rise 2%
2014-01-14 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Energy-related carbon dioxide pollution grew by 2% last year after declining several years in a row, a government report said Monday. The increase was largely due to a small boost in coal consumption by the electric power industry, according to the study by the US Energy Information Administration. American cars and factories spewed 5.38 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, up from 5.27 billion in 2012, the report said. Carbon dioxide is the chief man-made global warming gas. Coal, long...
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UK plan to halve carbon emissions affordable, adviser says
2013-12-12 02:36:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.K.'s ambition to cut carbon emissions by half is affordable and mustn't be watered down, the government's adviser on global warming said. "There is no reason to change the budget," John Gummer, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change and a member of the parliament's upper house, said in London. The advice is included in a report Wednesday that concludes a two-part review of Britain's target to reduce emissions by half by 2025 from 1990 levels. The goal caused friction between ministers...
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New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
2013-11-21 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These carbon majors include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former Soviet Union, China and other countries. Emissions from burning these fuels total nearly two-thirds of all the carbon that has been...
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Global Carbon Emissions Projected Reach Record High in 2013
2013-11-19 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Global carbon emissions are expected rise to a record high this year of 36 billion metric tons, according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project. The rise represents a 2.1 percent increase in projected emissions and puts 2013 global emissions from burning fossil fuels at 61 percent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol. The projected rise in emissions clashes with the United Nations goal of keeping global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius. ...
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