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Tourism And Greenhouse Gas Emissions

June 29, 2018 By EarthWise Leave a Comment

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Tourism is a significant contributor to global gross domestic product.  Furthermore, it is growing at an annual rate of 4%, more than many other economic sectors.  There are many places around the world where it is the largest industry.  But until recently, there really wasn’t very good information about its carbon footprint.

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Turning CO2 Into Rock

July 11, 2016 By WAMC WEB

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One of the strategies to tackle the problem of increasing greenhouse gas emissions that are resulting in climate change is Carbon Capture and Storage or CCS, which seeks to prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere and to instead tuck it away somewhere.   A longstanding approach to doing it is to store it underground in voids such as abandoned oil and gas reservoirs.  There are various complications associated with this idea, not the least of which being potential leakage of the stored CO2.

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Old-School Companies And Renewable Energy

April 12, 2016 By WAMC WEB

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The biggest Internet companies have been embracing renewable energy for years now.  The company that bought the largest amount of clean energy last year was Google, which has three times the renewable capacity of the next biggest user.  Other familiar names in the top ten companies in total wind and solar capacity include Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple.  These companies have been ahead of the pack in looking for sustainable ways to meet their substantial energy needs.

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The Hottest Year

February 19, 2016 By WAMC WEB

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2015 was the hottest year in the historical record, easily breaking the mark set only one year earlier.  The unusually large El Niño weather pattern is releasing enormous amounts of heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere, but climate scientists say that the bulk of the record-setting heat is due to the long-term warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions.  The global land surface temperature was 1.6°F above the 20th century historical average. That’s a huge jump from 2014, which was 1.3° above average.  That may sound like very little, but for the planet as a whole, it is extremely large.

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