Definition and actors of the greenhouse effect Key words: definition, warming, climate, climatic, albedo, GWP, carbon equivalent, Earth, ecosystem, global… Definition: what is the greenhouse effect? The greenhouse effect is a natural process of climate warming which intervenes in the radiative and thermal balance of the Earth. It is […]
Yesterday in Denmark, the first installation in the world was launched to remove carbon dioxide from the fumes escaping from a coal-fired power station. Perhaps a significant advance in the fight against greenhouse gases. It happened on March 15, in Denmark, precisely on the site of the […]
Faced with federal inertia in the fight against global warming, seven states in the northeast of the United States have just launched a joint initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a system of tradable quotas of CO2. New York Governor George Pataki, a Republican, said yesterday that […]
Inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in France under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by CITEPA, December 2007. The data presented apply to the geographic, temporal and sectoral fields defined specifically in this framework and may therefore differ from those corresponding to other established definitions […]
French greenhouse gas emissions increased by 0,5% in 2003, according to an inventory that the Interministerial Mission for the Greenhouse Effect (Mies) has just put online. The main source of this increase was the residential-tertiary sector: after an improvement in 2002, its emissions increased again by […]
A research team at the University of Alberta has developed an economically viable method to halve methane emissions in Alberta. Dr Robert Hayes, chemical engineer, believes that his innovative catalytic combustion application, which transforms methane into carbon dioxide, will reduce the environmental impact of the petroleum industry […]
Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin are looking for ways to store the greenhouse gas CO2 in rocks. When fossil fuels are definitively gone from the earth, we can use the stored gas as a source of carbon dioxide. From 2005, under the Kyoto protocol and with a view to […]
The report submitted to Congress by James Mahoney, Under Secretary of State for Climate Research, admits that greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming. However, this fact was until now denied by the Bush administration. Indeed, GW Bush has always refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol (signed yet by […]
Natural gas is one of the most used energies in France for cooking, heating or for your sanitary equipment. Composed of methane, it is formed from the weathering of organic matter found underground or within the seabed. The point on the advantages, but also the disadvantages of […]
Synthetic article by Laurent Minguet, author of the Nowfuture blog, including many interesting figures, showing that a gradual exit from nuclear power is possible thanks to gas-vapor turbines. Encrypted application in Wallonia. Find out more: debate on phasing out nuclear power or visit our forum on nuclear electricity The exit from nuclear power for […]