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Germany's energy revolution on verge of collapse
2014-01-22 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Germany's energy revolution has gone sour, as have its efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's "Energiewende" policy aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2020, mostly by closing coal-fired power plants and boosting renewable energy. Yet in 2013, coal burning soared to its highest level for more than 20 years. Then, last week, economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel said he will slash wind and solar subsidies by a third, to cut rising...
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Fla. pop. on verge of surpassing New York State's
2014-01-03 17:48:26| Real Estate - Topix.net
Details are in an Associated Press analysis of data from the U.S. Census' American Community Survey.
Here Comes The Sun: India On Verge Of Becoming Global Solar Power
2013-12-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: India is on the brink of becoming a global solar power, according to a report just published by the World Bank. Under the governments Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission Phase-1 (JNNSM), which was initiated in January 2010 to promote sustainable growth, broadly expand solar power, and deal with the effects of climate change, Indias installed capacity of solar power has already jumped from about 30 megawatts to more than 2,000 MW. The World Bank noted that JNNSM has also helped bring down...
Are we on the verge of solving climate change?
2013-11-13 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Have global emissions begun a 'permanent slowdown'? Are we on the verge, finally, of tackling climate change? Those are the tantalising questions posed by the latest round of global CO2 figures released by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). According to the new report, after a decade of growing at a hair-raising 2.9% per year, the growth rate in CO2 from fossil fuels and industrial processes has dropped to 1.4%, or just...
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Farmers on Verge of Record Corn Harvest
2013-11-08 18:31:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. corn growers remain on track for a record high 14.0 billion bushel production year, according to the Crop Production report, released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). In addition to corn numbers, the report also included updated forecasts for U.S. citrus production, and major field crops, such as soybeans and cotton. Based on administrative data, NASS revised the acreage planted to corn this season to 95.3 million acres, down 2% from the previous estimate. read more
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