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Flawed methane monitor underestimates leaks at oil and gas sites
2015-05-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A popular scientific instrument used to measure methane leaks from oil and gas operations severely underestimates emissions under certain conditions, a preliminary study found. The results could have major implications for federal policies as the Obama administration moves to regulate methane from the natural gas industry. The research paper raises serious questions about the validity of existing methane data. Measurements taken by the instrument are frequently used by the Environmental Protection...
Former Treasury Secretary Rubin says US underestimates the cost of climate risks
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Robert Rubin, a former U.S. Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said yesterday that climate change is particularly pernicious because it affects so many distinct economic sectors, from budgetary planning and labor relations to agriculture production. "I believe, as all of you do, that climate change is the existential threat of our time," Rubin said, addressing the Climate Leadership Conference in Arlington, Va. "The scientific community has long been unanimous." Yet on Capitol Hill,...
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IPCC stern on climate change but still underestimates the situation
2014-11-02 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At this point, the scientists who run the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must feel like its time to trade their satellites, their carefully calibrated thermometers and spectrometers, their finely tuned computer models all of them for a thesaurus. Surely, somewhere, there must be words that will prompt the worlds leaders to act. This week, with the release of their new synthesis report, they are trying the words severe, widespread, and irreversible to describe the effects of climate...
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National Grid underestimates threat of coal, says WWF
2014-07-12 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Environmental group WWF has criticised the National Grids Future Energy Scenarios report because it underestimates threat of coal. The organisation states that the report assumes that most of the UKs old and inefficient coal power stations will close down by 2023, instead of choosing to extend their lives by complying with new regulation to reduce their air pollution. WWF explains it is concerned that large windfall payments given to coal power plants, through the capacity market, will mean...
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US Underestimates Methane Emissions From Fracking Report
2014-04-17 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ria Novosit: The amount of methane emitted by natural gas extraction, including fracking, is grossly underestimated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a new study published in the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Thirteen scientists from different academic and research institutions and fields co-authored the report, which used special airborne instruments to identify large sources of methane and quantify emission rates in southwestern Pennsylvania....
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