Climate, Climate Change and Study

Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Europe and the US. The study was published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. This new study is based on a thorough review of a decade of research on aviation emissions.

Climate

Climate Emissions CO2 Climate Change

Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. Their study appears in Global Change Biology. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9

Climate

Climate Climate Change South Carolina Carbon

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.

Climate Change

Climate Change Pollution Climate 2014

Study suggests future climate changes to worsen air quality for >85% of China’s population; ~20k+ additional deaths each year

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2019

A study by a team of researchers from China, the US and Germany suggests that future climate change may worsen air quality for more than 85% of China’s population, leading to an additional 20,000 deaths each year. Managing air quality in China in a changing climate will thus become more challenging.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Ozone Future

Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Projected extreme temperatures under climate change are predicted to reduce average yields for several of the United States’ major crops. These changes in productivity would drive farmers to change crops and move into new areas. Farmers are particularly exposed to the problems of climate change.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate United States Production

UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. The space industry is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors.

Climate

Climate Ozone Industry Industrial

Study estimates California’s GHG reductions since 2003 could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But if it were, the wildfires would be setting California back in meeting its climate goals, with the carbon emissions from California’s 2020 fire season alone making up 49% of the state’s 2030 emissions target. “To Jerrett et al. The carbon dioxide from wildfires is not counted against California’s emissions targets.

2003

2003 2020 Climate Change Pollution

Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming.

Climate Change

Climate Change Global Energy Climate

Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Emissions Carbon

Study finds limiting warming to 2 °C would require at least a $200/t carbon tax globally

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

Some will suffer greatly from climate change, while others may even benefit. A study by University of Chicago economist Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, the Glen A. In practice, countries and regions tend to consider the implications of climate change for themselves, not for the whole world. —Cruz & Rossi-Hansberg.

Tax

Tax Carbon Global Climate Change

UGA study finds black carbon aerosols from GDI engines will worsen public health, climate; need for GPFs

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2020

Consequently, GDI engines emit larger amounts of BC compared to PFI engines, as has been confirmed by several laboratory studies. A strong absorber of solar radiation, black carbon exhibits significant climate warming properties. —Neyestani et al. of approximately +0.075 W/m 2 , with values as large as +0.45 —Rawad Saleh.

Climate

Climate Carbon Engine Fuel Economy

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. The main changes in the radiative forcing due to 1 Tg flux of hydrogen; methane (green bars), ozone (yellow), stratospheric water vapor (purple), and aerosols (red).

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Global Ozone CO2

U of Toronto study finds US electrification of LDV fleet not a silver bullet for tackling climate change in vehicle sector

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto has found that current US policies are insufficient to remain within a sectoral CO 2 emission budget for light-duty vehicles that is consistent with preventing more than 2?°C The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. C global warming.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Fleet Vehicles

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

earlier post ), a new study by a team at Environmental Defense Fund finds that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world and over time, with some facilities emitting more greenhouse gases than those burning fossil fuels. They also estimated emissions caused by flooding the reservoir.

Climate

Climate Climate Change Coal Gas-Electric

Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. Of the 841 cities studied, 325 showed significant greening with more than 10% of greening BUAs. billion and the urban population was 4.2

Global

Global 2001 2018 Green

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected both consumer and commercial transportation, but global oil demand will probably continue to grow through 2030, according to a new study. Lines represent global oil demand by study scenario. Source: “Will Covid Drive An Early Peak In Transportation Activity And Oil Demand?”.

Oil

Oil Climate Global Stimulus Package

Study: Fossil fuel CO2 emissions reached max daily decline of 17% in April

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

Percentage change in global daily fossil CO 2 emissions, Jan-May 2020. The analysis, published in Nature Climate Change , was conducted by researchers from the University of East Anglia, Stanford University, the CICERO Center for International Climate Research and CSIRO as part of the Global Carbon Project. Le Quéré, C.,

Emissions

Emissions CO2 Climate Change Fuel

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. The study is one of the first to account for methane leaking from old, abandoned mines. Mines are getting deeper every year.

Coal

Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. EH&E) and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. —David MacIntosh.

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric

MIT team finds aviation emissions’ impacts on air quality larger than on climate

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at MIT have determined that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change.

MIT

MIT Climate Emissions Climate Change

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. Their study found “emissions from cycling can be more than 30 times lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about ten times lower than driving an electric one.” It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions

NOAA study finds reducing particulate air pollution in N America & Europe increases hurricanes in N Atlantic

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

A new NOAA study covering four decades of tropical cyclones found that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin and a decrease in the number of these storms in the Southern Hemisphere.

Pollution

Pollution America Europe North America

Study finds stabilizing warming at 1.5 ?C would result in economic hit through 2100; benefits accrue by 2300

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A new study by a team from San Jose State University and Stanford University has found that—even under heightened damage estimates—the additional mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C (relative to 2.0 °C) C) are higher than the additional avoided damages this century under most parameter combinations considered.

San Jose

San Jose Climate Change Climate Global

New model framework for improving predictions of black carbon’s radiative effect on climate

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2020

For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth’s warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has proved elusive. Absorption by black carbon strongly affects regional and global climate. If you have larger absorption, it contributes to warming and has greater climate impact.

Climate

Climate Carbon Climate Change Michigan

Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies

Innovation News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

According to a new study, nutrition insecurity in Africa needs to be combated with crops that are resilient to climate change. The post Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies appeared first on Innovation News Network.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Africa Environment

ICCT study finds state EV incentives playing a significant role in driving sales

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. —Jin et al. Earlier post.). —Jin et al. electric vehicle incentives ”.

Sale

Sale PHEV District of Columbia North Dakota

Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change

Innovation News Network

JULY 16, 2024

Two new studies published by ETH Zurich suggest that the Earth's rotation is being significantly impacted by climate change. The post Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Environment

Study finds global emissions of several banned ozone-destroying CFCs are increasing

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2023

But because they’re potent greenhouse gases, they still affect the climate. —Lead author Dr Luke Western, a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and researcher at the NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) The international study was conducted by a team of scientists from the UK, US, Switzerland, Australia, and Germany.

Ozone

Ozone Emissions Global Switzerland

Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries

Innovation News Network

MARCH 6, 2023

Researchers in Africa are set to receive grants worth tens of thousands of dollars to study the impact of solar geoengineering. The post Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries appeared first on Innovation News Network.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Solar Africa

Study finds air pollution caused by corn production increases mortality rate in US

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

A new study finds that environmental damage caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. This paper also estimates life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn production, finding total climate change damages of $4.9 a, Absolute mortality.

Pollution

Pollution Production Minnesota United States

NTSB Chair questions safety impact of heavy EVs

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

We do have a climate crisis that needs to be addressed. If US residents who switched to SUVs over the past 20 years had stuck with smaller cars, more than 1,000 pedestrian deaths might have been averted, according to one study. That has a significant impact on safety for all road users. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight.

F-150

F-150 Climate Petrol Gas-Electric

Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

Renewable

Renewable Energy Portland Climate Change

MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main.

Future

Future MIT Climate Change Alternative Fuels

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there are still major uncertainties regarding the quantities and distribution of soot in the atmosphere.

Bolivia

Bolivia Transportation Global Climate Change

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ].

Mariner

Mariner Climate Change DC Cars

Columbia team organizes available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The study, led by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH), organized the available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health. A table provides information on the risk of health outcomes for exposure by study, encompassing research on six continents. Resources.

Pollution

Pollution Climate Change Available Climate

Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

Creative Greenius

MARCH 13, 2019

My friend and mentor, Bill McKibben has an Op Ed about this Friday’s Student Climate Strikes in today’s on-line edition of the LA Times that will be news to LAT readers but not to Creative Greenius devotees. And when they don’t show up for school on Climate Strike Day neither does that $47 for the school budget.

Climate

Climate America Future Sweden

DLR: cleaner aircraft emissions reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Fewer soot particles in the exhaust stream of aircraft reduces the formation of ice crystals and therefore the climate impact of the resulting contrail cirrus. The results are published in an open-access paper in the Nature Partner Journal (npj) Climate and Atmospheric Science. Burkhardt et al. —Ulrike Burkhardt.

Climate

Climate Emissions Cleaner Alternative Fuels

Origin Materials launches Net Zero Automotive Program with Ford; carbon-negative PET

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2021

The assessment studies Origin products across four environmental criteria: climate change; ecosystem quality, resource consumption; and human health. kg CO 2 eq/kg CMF; -1.7 kg CO 2 eq/kg HTC; -1.5 kg CO 2 eq/kg furfural; -1.4 kg CO 2 eq/kg levulinic acid.

Carbon

Carbon Ford Climate Change Climate

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. Air pollution in India resulted 1.67

Pollution

Pollution India 2019 Boston

NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. In NREL’s bioenergy program, for example, we have chemists studying the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass and waste materials into fuel.

Transportation

Transportation Hydrogen Mariner Renewable

Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The same study also concluded an overall lower consumption of tobacco worldwide is statistically linked to less people contracting lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC)—another type of NSCLC. The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. LSCC is often linked to a history of smoking.

Pollution

Pollution Carbon South Korea Asia

Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

An even more intense “megadrought” hit the region around 1,800 years ago, according to a new study published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters. The new study used tree-ring data and other climate records to identify a drought period unmatched in severity by the current drought or other ancient droughts.

Colorado

Colorado Water Climate Arizona

Study finds that steady reduction in fossil fuel emissions will not result in short-term warming spike

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One view advanced in some studies attempting to model future climate is that cleaning up fossil-fuel air pollution rapidly will unintentionally lead to a near-term rise in atmospheric warming of about a half-degree Celsius, which might take up to a century to reverse. Shindell and Smith published their study in Nature.

Emissions

Emissions Climate Change Fuel Climate

Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Study suggests future climate changes to worsen air quality for >85% of China’s population; ~20k+ additional deaths each year

Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

Study estimates California’s GHG reductions since 2003 could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires

Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Study finds limiting warming to 2 °C would require at least a $200/t carbon tax globally

UGA study finds black carbon aerosols from GDI engines will worsen public health, climate; need for GPFs

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

U of Toronto study finds US electrification of LDV fleet not a silver bullet for tackling climate change in vehicle sector

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

Study: Fossil fuel CO2 emissions reached max daily decline of 17% in April

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

MIT team finds aviation emissions’ impacts on air quality larger than on climate

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

NOAA study finds reducing particulate air pollution in N America & Europe increases hurricanes in N Atlantic

Study finds stabilizing warming at 1.5 ?C would result in economic hit through 2100; benefits accrue by 2300

New model framework for improving predictions of black carbon’s radiative effect on climate

Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies

ICCT study finds state EV incentives playing a significant role in driving sales

Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change

Study finds global emissions of several banned ozone-destroying CFCs are increasing

Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries

Study finds air pollution caused by corn production increases mortality rate in US

NTSB Chair questions safety impact of heavy EVs

Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

Columbia team organizes available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health

Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

DLR: cleaner aircraft emissions reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus

Origin Materials launches Net Zero Automotive Program with Ford; carbon-negative PET

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

Study finds that steady reduction in fossil fuel emissions will not result in short-term warming spike

Stay Connected