Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

A plane traveling from North America to London and back generates about 1.4 Nitrogen oxides produced by air travel increases ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere which warms the planet more than it would at lower altitudes. tonnes of CO2, that is the equivalent of more than 3 months of driving.

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Climate change Ozone North America Carbon 40

Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Basu analyzed 60,000 summertime births — those taking place between May and September — from 1999 to 2006, across 16 California counties. Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. She found higher rates of preterm births during higher temperatures.

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Health Pollution Climate change Africa 137

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. After the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1815, parts of Europe and North America saw a “year without summer.”

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 120