by faster | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: ABC (Australia) DATE: November 18, 2019 SNIP: Emissions of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide — are going up faster than we thought. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This means...
by faster | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: November 8, 2019 SNIP: To the naked eye, there is nothing out of the ordinary at the DCP Pegasus gas processing plant in West Texas, one of the thousands of installations in the vast Permian Basin that have transformed America into the...
by faster | Sep 13, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: September 13, 2019 SNIP: It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short...
by faster | Jun 6, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Harvard Gazette DATE: June 6, 2019 SNIP: About a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost. Now, it turns out these permanently frozen beds of soil, rock, and sediment are actually not so permanent: They’re thawing at an increasing rate....
by faster | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: November 12, 2018 SNIP: Increasing demand for home air conditioning driven by global warming, population growth and rising incomes in developing countries could increase the planet’s temperatures an additional half a degree...