How many trees does it take to offset U.S. CO2 emissions?
The answer? Almost 467 billion! I was looking through the EPA’s Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (yes, I peruse reports like that out of pure interest; what of it?) and […]
Tag Archives: Carbon Dioxide
Global Competition
Still in the spirit of international competition (What can I say? I have Olympics fever!), I was curious how global emissions are distributed among the world’s countries. Who emits the […]
Cool It: White Rooftops and the Urban Heat Island
I recently came across a clip online that stated a cumulative 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (the amount emitted by the entire world in 2010) could be kept […]
I Heart Clean Air
I recently read that atmospheric carbon levels have reached a troubling new record. Carbon in the Arctic has now reached 400 parts per million (ppm), and the rest of the […]
Sweet Shades: Can Geo-Engineering Keep Earth Cool?
Have you seen those aluminum light reflectors that go inside the front windshield of your car to keep the car from getting so hot in the summer? Pretty useful, even […]
