The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much. But emissions steadily declined, and today’s cars emit about 3{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of what their predecessors did. Then it was oil imports: electric vehicles (EVs) would reduce foreign dependency and balance of trade deficits. Bountiful oil and natural gas supplies from America’s hydraulic fracturing revolution finally eliminated that as an argument.
Recently, McDonald’s shares hit an all-time high, buoyed by Wall Street’s expectations that investments in automation technologies will drive business value: As part of its “Experience of the Future” initiative, McDonald’s announced plans to roll out digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 of its locations.
The way Americans perceive climate change is too often determined by their hearing just one side of the story.
The American people should be made aware of both the negative and positive impacts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Without the whole story, how can we expect an objective evaluation of the issues involving climate change?
Written by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California. Despite being relatively close together, these vents host very different animal communities.
I’ve looked at UK sea level rise, but what about global?
As well as the much-adjusted satellite datasets, we have a Global Mean Sea Level Reconstruction by Jevrejeva et al, published in 2014 and with data up to mid-2010.
How long is a day on Saturn? The answer is still unclear as the Cassini spacecraft approaches its “Grand Finale” plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere.
New research highlights the immense power of fear. The emotion was strong enough to curb eating and reproduction among groups of fruit flies, increasing the likelihood of extinction.
The International Earthquake and Volcano Prediction Center (IEVPC) announces today that it has once again successfully predicted catastrophic earthquakes months in advance.
Wind energy is supposed to rescue the planet from an environmental and nature disaster. Unfortunately for many in Germany, the opposite is true. It has brought on environmental ruin and destruction of natural heritage.
Poor Bill Nye -he thinks somehow most people are as religious about climate change as he is, and will keep their naively unscientific beliefs about our ability to control the climate with power stations, wind mills and light bulbs, into their old age.
Scientists: Temperature Data Contamination Accounts For 33{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} – 75{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} Of Modern Warming
Urban heat from paved roads, buildings, and machinery can artificially inflate temperatures substantially above measured temperatures from non-urban areas. This introduces a significant non-climatic warming bias into long-term records.
The term ‘Radiative Forcing’ that was first defined in IPCC reports is non-measurable as it changes with altitude (temperature), due to moist adiabatic lapse rate the latent heat absorbed rises to a cooler upper atmosphere and latent heat is released on precipitation that cools and cleans the atmosphere and surfaces again.
The Trojan asteroids that follow Mars in its orbit might have come from the planet itself, blown off in an ancient impact rather than being late arrivals, a new study suggests.