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Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimates from the International Energy Agency.
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Jim Hansen's Conservative Climate Plan - 0 views

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    Hansen's proposal makes use of market principles, by prodding the market to tell the truth about the costs of carbon-based energy through prices.
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De-Bugging Your Food -- A Vacuum Alternative to Pesticides for Microbiology Solution - 0 views

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    January 1, 2007 - A physical chemist has developed a new technique for ridding harvested produce of insect pests and microorganisms without using pesticides such as methyl bromide. The technique, called Metabolic Stress Disinfection and Disinfestation, suffocates pests by exposing them to cycles of vacuum and pressurized carbon dioxide. Treatment chambers could be easy to develop on a large enough scale for farmers to use.
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The price of environmental destruction? There is none | Andrew Simms | Environment | Th... - 0 views

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    A new UN report estimates that accounting for the environmental damage of the world's 3,000 biggest companies would wipe out one-third of their profits. Any precise figure, however, is a matter of how risk is quantified and of where you draw the line. In 2006, for example, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), of which I am the policy director, looked at the oil companies BP and Shell, who together had recently reported profits of £25bn. By applying the Treasury's own estimates of the social and environmental cost of carbon emissions, we calculated that the total bill for those costs would reach £46.5bn, massively outweighing profits and plunging the companies into the red.
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