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UN climate chief seeks $10 bln rich-nations pledge
Nov 19th, 2009 - Reuters
* De Boer sees hundreds of billions needed in long term * Climate chief says reports Copenhagen will fail "wrong" UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The U.N...
California approves new TV energy regulation: Energy consumption to be cut in half by 2012
Nov 19th, 2009 - CrunchGear
Looks like California approved the new energy standards for televisions. The Consumer Electronics Association is predictably upset, whinging on about “constraining” innovation and choice, while environmental groups are predictably thrilled...Obama Needs China to Help Him Run Great Green Race
Nov 19th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- It was a happy accident that BarackObama found himself in Beijing on the day the U.S. Senate kickedclimate change legislation into the spring. Obama needs ChinesePresident Hu Jintao’s help to break the U.S...Fight Global Warming: Wear a Condom
Nov 19th, 2009 - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 19) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N...
California Bans Power-Hungry TVs: Critics Blast Regulation
Nov 19th, 2009 - PC World
Artwork: Chip Taylor, Photographs: Robert CardinCalifornia TV shoppers are going green - whether they like it or not. On Wednesday, the California Energy Commission voted...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions videos from YouTube:
4:53'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources
A new, high resolution, interactive map of United States carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. The maps and system, called Vulcan ...
4:16Cap and Trade: Will It Save the Earth?
A focus group lets us know what they think about global warming and cap and trade policy proposals that reduce emissions. Heritage analysts point out some key misconceptions that might change their minds about this massive new energy tax ...
55:40Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Oil Substitutes
September 23, 2009 - Adam Brandt, assistant professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, discusses the results of a model-based comparison of the economic and systemic ...
2:25EPA Toughens Stance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Complete video at: fora.tv EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson discusses the agency's recently announced Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR) for greenhouse gas emissions. She emphasizes that the MRR ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from WikiPedia:
Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. In our solar system, the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and Titan also contain gases that cause greenhouse effects. Greenhouse gases greatly affect the temperature of the Earth; without them, Earth's surface would be on average about 33°C (59°F) colder than at present.
Human activities since the start of the industrial era around 1750 have increased the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The 2007 assessment report compiled by the IPCC noted that "changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, land cover and solar radiation alter the energy balance of the climate system", and concluded that "increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations is very likely to have caused most of the increases in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century".
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