“Clouds currently cover about two-thirds of the planet at any moment,” writes
science journalist Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine. But a
supercomputer simulation by researchers at the California Institute of
Technology “revealed a tipping point: a level of warming at which
stratocumulus clouds break up altogether. The disappearance occurs when
the concentration of CO2 in the simulated atmosphere reaches 1,200 parts
per million [ppm]—a level that fossil fuel burning could push us past
in about a century, under ‘business-as-usual’ emissions scenarios.”
Tag Archives: environment
Alberta government commits $70M to help energy-intensive industries slash emissions | CBC News
An article from Feb 6th, 2019, shows the Alberta government handing out money to companies that don’t need it.
Will Alberta’s renewable energy sector go the way of Ontario’s? | The Narwhal
I guess subsidies are only for the fossil fuel industry then?
“If it requires a subsidy, we won’t do it.”
The leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party, Jason Kenney, has vowed that no government money will go to support the province’s renewable energy industry if he is elected when voters go to the polls this spring. #abpoli #ableg
Climate change: CO2 emissions fall in 18 countries with strong policies, study finds | CBC News
Note: Canada didn’t make the list…
The study looked at emissions from between 2005 and 2015. Globally, CO2 was on the rise — about 2.2 per cent annually — but in 18 countries, their emissions saw a decline. These 18 account for 28 per cent of global emissions.
Comment period opens for mine that would destroy two brooks in New Brunswick | rabble.ca
The CBC has reported that the tailings dam has been likened by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) to the dam that burst in August 2014 at the Mount Polley mine in British Columbia, causing significant environmental damage.
The CCNB has also previously highlighted that the mine would have a significant impact on local waterways, including Bird Brook, West Branch Napadogan Brook, Sisson Brook, and McBean Brook.
Now the NB Media Coop has posted on social media, “On Monday, the Trudeau Government announced that tributaries of Bird Brook & West Napadogan Brook, part of the Nashwaak watershed, had been placed on a list that would take away its protections so that the Sisson Mine could dump its mining waste in them.” More on this can be found in the Canada Gazette dated February 16, on pages 400 to 421 (pages 38 to 59 of the PDF). #nbpoli