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Carrier, inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump

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Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed...
Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed by the growing market for heat pumps and other HVAC climate technologies, which have outsold fossil fuel furnaces for two years in a row."HVAC is at an inflection point right now," said...

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Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone

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Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory The chart shows monthly numbers of carbon...
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory The chart shows monthly numbers of carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of dry air. Because of seasonal differences, levels are higher in May than in August. Carbon dioxide acts like Earth’s thermostat: The more of it in...

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Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025

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By Kurt Cobb - Apr 15, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT India's heatwave criteria do not consider...
By Kurt Cobb - Apr 15, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT India's heatwave criteria do not consider humidity, leading to an underestimation of heat danger. Deadly wet-bulb temperatures, where perspiration does not evaporate, are occurring more frequently. Potential slowdown or collapse of the Gulf Stream could plunge Northern Europe...

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Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking – some 'rapidly'

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What Myths About the Anthropocene Get Wrong

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The success of EVs is massively underreported

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The EV UniversePosts⚡️ Big picture: EV Universe Sales Report 2023Subscribe | Advertise | Upgrade Information wants...
The EV UniversePosts⚡️ Big picture: EV Universe Sales Report 2023Subscribe | Advertise | Upgrade Information wants to be free. This is the maxim that I’ve built the whole EV Universe on. My goal today is simple: give you the best-detailed overview of 2023 EV sales globally that you can get anywhere, without you havi...

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German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban

telegraph.co.uk

Greenhouse emissions in Europe’s biggest economy fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023,...
Greenhouse emissions in Europe’s biggest economy fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023, but the transport sector has been consistently failing to meet its climate targets.According to the current climate protection law, the ministry responsible for underperforming sectors must launch an immediate programme to...

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EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint

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An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric...
An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded the first evidence that the adoption of electric vehicles is measurably lowering the area's carbon emissions. The network of sensors, most of them in the Ea...

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Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What's Happening?

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are...

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Scientists can't fully explain recent climate change records

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In short: Leading climate scientists say there is a margin to the extreme heat the world...
In short: Leading climate scientists say there is a margin to the extreme heat the world has experienced over the past year that can't be explained by global warming or known climate drivers.All predictions for the global temperature increase by global climate institutions fell way short of the actual number of 1.44...

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Federal dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting fossil fuels

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Heat-trapping CO2 and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs

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Timekeepers may subtract a second in 2029 as planet spins slightly faster

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Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society...
Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster th...

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Climate models can't explain 2023's heat anomaly

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Climate Change Speeds Up as Major Indicators Blow Off the Charts, WMO Warns

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Why Is the Sea So Hot?

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In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange....
In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March, sea-surface temperatures began to rise. By April, they’d set a new record: the average temperature at the surface of the world’s oceans, excluding those at the poles, was jus...

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The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I

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In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy...
In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as the average American household uses in a day. At the time, de Vries, who is Dutch, was working at a consulting firm. In his spare time, he wrote a blog, called Digiconomist, about the risks of investing in cryptocurren...

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Arctic river, permafrost changes in a warming climate have global consequences

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The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.As...
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.As more electric vehicles hit the roads, the environmental impact of their battery production will also increase. This raises a major question: What type of EV battery will be the most environmentally friendly on a large ...

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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates

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Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using...
Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. Heat pumps aren’t common in homes at this latitude, because historically they haven’t worked well in subzero temperatures....

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Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?

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Greener Cities: A Necessity or a Luxury?

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Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point. Extreme climate within decades

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The Benefits of Mangroves (2023)

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Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves...
Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves play a critical role in a lot of marine ecosystems: they filter the water, act as a nursery habitat, and maintain healthy biodiversity. Mangroves also protect Southwest Florida’s coastlines from storm surg...

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