How much carbon dioxide is too much? According to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) greenhouse gases in the atmosphere need to be stabilized at levels low enough to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."
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As atmospheric CO2 levels rise, methods to mitigate these increases are becoming very important. Three studies published in the July-August 2008 issue of Soil Science Society of America Journal explore the potential roles of soils as a C sink in different regions in the Western Hemisphere.
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European Union wants smaller, cleaner cars. Car makers will in the future be made to pay if they fail to slash the vehicles' emissions of carbon dioxide. Brussels has unveiled controversial proposals to impose fines on all new cars sold in Europe that exceed a set limit for CO2. The fines will start in 2012 and rise sharply every year.
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Kansas has become the first state to directly target industries' carbon dioxide emissions, recently denying a coal-fired power plant a clean air permit.
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Before the worst mass extinction of life in Earth’s history – 252 million years ago – ocean life was diverse and clam-like organisms called brachiopods dominated. After the calamity, when little else existed, a different kind of clam-like organism, called a bivalve, took over.
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A team of coral researchers has taken a major stride towards revealing the workings of the mysterious ‘engine’ that drives Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and corals the world over.
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It's a fraud. Current incompetent stories regarding CO2 Causing Climate Change are a fraud.
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Plants can do it: they simply grab carbon dioxide out of the air and covert it into biomass. In this process, known as photosynthesis, the plants use light as their energy source. Chemists would also like to be able to use CO2 as a carbon source for their synthetic reactions, but it doesn't work just like that.
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Researchers from the University of Leicester and the British Geological Survey (BGS) have proposed storing CO2 in huge underground reservoirs as a way of reducing emissions- and have even identified sites in Western Europe that would be suitable.
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