August 17, 2012
US Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down in Q1 2012
The U.S. Energy Information Agency reported that U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions from energy use were significantly down in the first quarter of 2012.  Emissions fell to 1992 levels when compared against other first quarters when energy demand for fossil fuel heat is high. CO2 emissions during the first quarter of 2012, according to the US EIA, […]

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May 21, 2012
Global Warming: Pollution Warms Through Thunderclouds
New research led by Jiwen Fan of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory suggests that pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds.  The computational study was published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. Pollution strengthens thunderstorm clouds, which causes the tops of the clouds to spread out high in the atmosphere and capture heat, […]

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April 18, 2012
Do Local Climate Strategies Work?
A paper by Adam Millard-Ball entitled Do City Climate Plans Reduce Emissions? has started a debate between two noted environmental thinkers in Seattle:  Climate Solution’s K.C. Golden and Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center. Dr. Millard-Ball has a doctorate from Stanford and is an Assistant Professor at the McGill School of the Environment at […]

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February 29, 2012
PNNL: Toppling Raman Shift in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Source:  PNNL News Release, February 29, 2012. Just as a wine glass vibrates and sometimes breaks when a diva sings the right note, carbon dioxide vibrates when light or heat serenades it.  When it does, carbon dioxide exhibits a vibrational puzzle known as Fermi resonance.  Now, researchers studying geologic carbon storage have learned a bit […]

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February 22, 2012
PNNL: Gas Drawn Into Smog Particles Stay There
Airborne gases settle in smog particles from which they cannot escape. The results of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could explain why pollution computer models underestimate organic aerosols. Atmospheric chemist Alla Zelenyuk at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory evaluated millions of the artificial smog particles […]

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