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Energy Update: Keystone is a Drop in the CO2 Bucket List
This morning it was hard not to notice the coverage on Keystone in light of the Sunday protest by environmentalists on the Mall and in front of the White House in Washington, DC. I do not envy...
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Energy Update: Coal Use Growing Faster than Renewables – Ouch!
The International Energy Agency announced in a new report that despite the growth of solar and wind power, coal power continues to add more capacity than either. It would seem in light of the evidence...
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Space Update: Our Human Behaviour Here on Earth is Perfectly Suited for Mars
It occurred to me today as I was reading about researchers being able to reliably predict snowstorms on Mars, that what we humans are doing here on Earth could be perfect for terraforming our red...
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Ever Heard of the Heartland Institute?
If not pay attention because they are about to flood the North American airwaves with disinformation on global warming. The Heartland Institute released a 1,200 page report last week under the aegis of...
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Permafrost, Methane, Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
April 9, 2014 – A new study opens with the following statement: “Carbon release due to permafrost thaw represents a potentially major positive climate change feedback.” I can just see climate change...
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400 PPM CO2 Milestone No Longer Limited to Readings on Mauna Loa
May 8, 2015 – We put 32.3 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2014. That’s the same amount as 2013. In some quarters that represents progress, a plateauing on carbon emissions. But the...
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Technology That Produces Oxygen from CO2 Could Have Far Reaching Impact
June 25, 2015 – For future astronauts on Deep Space missions, a technology developed at University of California, could prove the difference between life and death. If you remember Apollo 13 and the...
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U.S. Republican Presidential Candidates and Their Carbon Contribution
July 2, 2015 – A mere two days before the United States celebrates its Independence Day, the Republicans now have 14 definite candidates and 2 to 6 probables who want to be the next President of the...
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Why I’m Angry at Fossil Fuel Companies and ExxonMobil in Particular
July 30, 2015 – One of my readers who follows my blog through LinkedIn admonished me a couple of weeks ago for being too critical of the fossil fuel industry. My response at the time was to point out...
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Why the Number One Trillion is Too Much
August 7, 2015 – One trillion is a big number. And when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions it represents what scientists believe is the absolute limit of that gas in our atmosphere. One trillion...
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409.44 Parts Per Million – Remember 2016 as the Year CO2 Went Ballistic
April 16, 2016 – Last week at the top of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere were measured at 409.44 ppm. On April 12 the reading was 408.5. Anyway you look at it...
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Two Charts Tell the Story of Climate Change in the 21st Century
June 17, 2016 – According to the latest data from the atmospheric observatory on Mauna Loa we can say goodbye to carbon dioxide (CO2) levels below 400 parts per million (ppm) for the remainder of this...
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When the Number 400 Became a “Crossing the Rubicon” Moment for the Planet
October 4, 2016 – The phrase “crossing the Rubicon” dates back to Julius Caesar and his war on the Roman Senate. When told to disband his legions, Caesar chose to cross the river that was considered...
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Climate Change Deniers Talk About the Benefits of Carbon Dioxide to Plants
October 5, 2016 – I received the following from the David Suzuki Foundation. It was entitled “Carbon dioxide: Pollutant or plant food?” Some climate change deniers argue that more, not less carbon...
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What will be the Consequences of Climate Change Policy Decisions in the...
November 21, 2016 – In a paper appearing in Nature Climate Change published last February, a research team presented the following: that the policy debate about anthropogenic climate change was being...
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Is Planetary Habitability the Key to Evolution of Life?
December 6, 2016 – In the latest revelations about Mars in the past researchers at Penn State University have modeled the planet’s climate showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) created...
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Why is Methane Spiking in the Atmosphere and What Can We Do About It?
December 12, 2016 – More potent in the short term than carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) has recently spiked in the atmosphere reaching concentrations of 1,830 parts per billion. Where is the methane...
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In My Lifetime Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has increased 33%
April 25, 2017 – When the observatory at Mauna Loa noted the latest readings on carbon dioxide (CO2) last week it was the first time since records on atmospheric composition started being kept that the...
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Clean Coal Technologies Gets Market Funding – You’d Think the Market Would...
September 10, 2017 – Just because a company calls itself Clean Coal, doesn’t mean it has a solution worth funding. Coal is the single largest human-created contributor of greenhouse gas emissions on...
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Cigarette Industry More Than Damaging To Lungs
September 27, 2017 – Jenny Mayer, a previous contributor of interesting content to 21st Century Tech Blog, has tackled cigarettes and smoking in this latest infographic. She writes: “We all know that...
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