Climate, South America and Water

UN Review of Recent Climate Research Concludes That Impacts Of Climate Change Coming Faster Than Anticipated

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Climate Change

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New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2012

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) paper published in Computers & Geosciences outlines a process that might help to determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change. Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis.

Water

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Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

Ozone

Ozone Water CO2 MIT

World Bank report examines likely impacts and risks associated with a 4 °C global warming within this century

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A new report commissioned by the World Bank, and prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics, provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4 °C global warming within this century.

Climate Change

Climate Change Global Climate Africa

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. Kholod said that when a closed mine is flooded, water stops methane from leaking almost completely within about seven years.

Coal

Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

Study finds that biofuel crops grown on marginal lands could produce up to half of worlds current liquid fuel consumption without impacting crops

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

Maps of land available for bioenergy production under one of the scenario 4 in US, Europe, China, India, South America, and Africa. Under any of the projections, Africa has more than one third, and Africa and South America have more than half of the total land available for biofuel production. Credit: ACS, Cai et al.

Fuel

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

Climate

Climate Climate Change Mariner Pollution

Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 14, 2022

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium.

South America

South America Lithium Ion Exhaust Climate Change

Study Finds Unexpected Decadal Decline in Global Evapotranspiration, Links It to Moisture Limitation in Southern Hemisphere

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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Global Climate Climate Change Water

Why You Shouldn’t Give A Shit About the Federal Budget Deficit

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

Probably the Indians (and after that, we’re coming for you South America [I'm looking at you Brazil!], The Greenius says, if you really care about your kids and future generations then stop worrying about accounting tricks and start focusing on the climate deficit you’re leaving everyone under 40 to deal with.

Tax

Tax Buy South America Brazil

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. Anthropogenic releases of mercury to water total 1000 tonnes at a minimum. Previous UNEP global mercury assessments considered only atmospheric emissions.

Mercury

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

Volkswagen Group 2014 sustainability report shows progress on key environmental performance indicators; Strategy 2018 and leadership in e-mobility

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

The largest sales market for the Volkswagen Group is the Asia-Pacific region, followed by Western Europe, North America, South America and Central and Eastern Europe. Consumption of space heat and industrial heat is subject to variation due to climatic and manufacturing conditions. By 2018, “Think Blue.

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Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2010

The potential for production of ethanol in Latin America and the Caribbean is high, and much of it could be delivered to US coastal regions at a lower cost than shipping corn-based ethanol from the US Midwest.

Universal

Universal Congress Gasoline United States

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Taking this further, they estimated that the warming associated with the use of heavy oil amounts to this level of emissions could lead to about 0.002−0.009 °C increase in earth surface temperature, based on mid-21 st century carbon-climate response model estimates. Earlier post.). —Nduagu & Gates.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel

Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

As a partner, European Energy will produce e-methanol for Maersk’s first green feeder vessel, which is expected to be on the water by 2023. It will also develop e-methanol projects in Latin America and the United States that will have a capacity to produce up to 200-300,000 tonnes annually of e-methanol starting in 2025/2026.

Green

Green Companies Switzerland Denmark

Why You Shouldn’t Give A Shit About the Federal Budget Deficit

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

Probably the Indians (and after that, we’re coming for you South America [I'm looking at you Brazil!], The Greenius says, if you really care about your kids and future generations then stop worrying about accounting tricks and start focusing on the climate deficit you’re leaving everyone under 40 to deal with.

Tax

Tax Buy South America Brazil

Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2024

These are the magnets that go into nearly all motors for electric vehicles and into climate-control systems, appliances, and tools, into the generators used in wind turbines, and into the hundreds of millions of headphones and loudspeakers sold each year. Such a technological advance could eventually prove indispensable for U.S.,

China

China North America Industrial Industry

Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution – and Australia must be ready – ET Auto

Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes. Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes.

Sodium

Sodium Australia Renewable Energy

Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution – and Australia must be ready – ET Auto

Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes. Some types of lithium mining require a lot of water and energy and have led to local pollution, such as in South America’s alpine lakes.

Sodium

Sodium Australia Renewable Energy

Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

For example - the process of obtaining lithium from brines can be more sustainable by condensing evaporated water so it can later be returned to the ground. A completely new method is to filter lithium directly out of the brine using membranes, thus avoiding water-intensive evaporation [8].

Li-ion

Li-ion Chile Petrol Sodium

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric

Study Finds That Plankton Blooms Do Not Send Atmospheric Carbon to the Deep Ocean; Weakens Iron Fertilization as Geo-Engineering Approach

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The results weaken the applicability of the simplest version of the Iron Hypothesis as a geo-engineering approach to climate change. SOFeX was meant to test the Iron Hypothesis in waters between New Zealand and Antarctica during the Antarctic summer. Give me half a tankerful of iron and I’ll give you an Ice Age ,” he said in 1988.

Carbon

Carbon Engine Climate Change Water

It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? But don’t just take my word for it: Just last week our Climate Consigliere , Doc Jimmy Hansen laid it all out for us. Science and policy cannot be divorced. But I digress.

Coal

Coal Carbon Climate Tax

Extreme E | Island X Prix – Sardinia | Your Ultimate Guide

My Energi

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Due to the ongoing COVID19 crisis in South America, Extreme E decided to make the quick decision to switch the location of the fourth race of 2021 from Brazil to the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy. Excess carbon in the atmosphere causes heat which in turn causes the trees to die through lack of water and forest fires.

Store

Store Carbon Climate Climate Change

EV Driven

UN Review of Recent Climate Research Concludes That Impacts Of Climate Change Coming Faster Than Anticipated

New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

World Bank report examines likely impacts and risks associated with a 4 °C global warming within this century

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

Study finds that biofuel crops grown on marginal lands could produce up to half of worlds current liquid fuel consumption without impacting crops

Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

Study Finds Unexpected Decadal Decline in Global Evapotranspiration, Links It to Moisture Limitation in Southern Hemisphere

Why You Shouldn’t Give A Shit About the Federal Budget Deficit

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Volkswagen Group 2014 sustainability report shows progress on key environmental performance indicators; Strategy 2018 and leadership in e-mobility

Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

Why You Shouldn’t Give A Shit About the Federal Budget Deficit

Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown

Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution – and Australia must be ready – ET Auto

Sodium-ion batteries are set to spark a renewable energy revolution – and Australia must be ready – ET Auto

Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Study Finds That Plankton Blooms Do Not Send Atmospheric Carbon to the Deep Ocean; Weakens Iron Fertilization as Geo-Engineering Approach

It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Extreme E | Island X Prix – Sardinia | Your Ultimate Guide

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