1000kg lab meat at 96% less GHGs

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Sometimes, when confronted with the promises of technology, we are tempted to dream away to a planet where we could cheer at yet another billion extra people, where we could set our livestock free to let wolves and big cats … Continue reading →

Soils don´t need warming to add another positive climate feedback

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

We recently reported on a possible negative carbon feedback of forest soils in higher latitudes: when such soils warm, nutrient availability may increase, as would (therefore) biomass production and CO2 uptake. But not all climate feedbacks operate through temperature. It … Continue reading →

Methane burps important, but sometimes eaten

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Fast forward through last week’s methane news: Wetland methane is probably bigger GHG source than previously thought That one big BP methane burp never made it to the surface

Hydroxyl proves stable atmospheric cleaner

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Good news in Science from an international team of atmospheric chemists, including researchers from NOAA and the Dutch universities of Wageningen and Utrecht. Hydroxyl, atmosphere’s enthusiastic cleaning agent, proves to be produced in quite stable quantities from year to year.

NASA: temperature is all about CO2

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Two new studies by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies help improve basic quantitative understanding of the Earth’s greenhouse system. The one, ‘CO2: The Thermostat that Controls Earth’s Temperature’, is a Goddard climate model based study (lead-author Andrew Lacis) to … Continue reading →

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1000kg lab meat at 96% less GHGs

Soils don´t need warming to add another positive climate feedback

Methane burps important, but sometimes eaten

Hydroxyl proves stable atmospheric cleaner

NASA: temperature is all about CO2