Keystone goes mainstream. PBS Newshour airs a “debate” over the Keystone XL Pipeline between environmentalist Bill McKibben and capitalist Robert Bryce.
The proposed pipeline would carry oil from Canadian tar sands fields to Texas refineries, but the project has sparked high-profile protests. Jeffrey Brown discusses the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research’s Robert Bryce and environmentalist Bill McKibben.
Source: PBS NewsHour
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Your gadgets may one day come with a carbon label like the nutritional information displayed on food packets.
That is if Michael Vandenbergh at the Climate Change Research Network at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee and colleagues get their way.
The researchers argue that since efforts to set a global price on carbon dioxide emissions look unlikely to bear fruit anytime soon, our best bet in the meantime may be product labels designed to influence what we consumers buy.
These could at least “bend the global carbon-growth curve” enough to buy us some time, they claim.
“Even modest changes in the household sector could significantly reduce emissions,” they say.
Journal reference: Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1071
Your gadgets may one day come with a carbon label like the nutritional information displayed on food packets.
That is if Michael Vandenbergh at the Climate Change Research Network at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee and colleagues get their way.
The researchers argue that since efforts to set a global price on carbon dioxide emissions look unlikely to bear fruit anytime soon, our best bet in the meantime may be product labels designed to influence what we consumers buy.
These could at least “bend the global carbon-growth curve” enough to buy us some time, they claim.
“Even modest changes in the household sector could significantly reduce emissions,” they say.
Journal reference: Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1071
The plan puts Massachusetts in the company of California, New Mexico and other states that have taken strong action to address global warming.
Space elevators are incredibly tall theoretical structures that stretch beyond the earth’s atmosphere to transport satellites and shuttles into outer space without the cost and environmental impact of rocket fueled launches. The idea has always been more science fiction than science fact, however a team from King’s College London could change that — they claim that advances in carbon nanotubes could make it ‘theoretically’ possible create a tether that would be strong enough to stretch more than 22,000 miles into space.
