Greenhouse Gases

The clock is ticking

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. Ernest Moniz

I’ve been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if … Read more

You could warm Mars

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. Elon Musk

The road to energy

The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector. Edward Mazria

We’ve made some heroic

We’ve made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, … There’s been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth. Denis Hayes

With time environmental issues

With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources – from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions … Read more

Although they [light and

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market…, they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation. David Suzuki

The black line is

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo – a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions. David Roberts

If the US is

If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions David Luiz

Soils could also be

Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin … Read more