global greenhouse gas Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:23:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Jet Stream Messed Up, Accelerating Climate Change https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jet-stream-climate-change/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jet-stream-climate-change/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:23:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53817 The effects of man-made greenhouse gas emissions is worse than we thought.  Not only is it melting the polar caps, there is also evidence that is messing up the jet stream, as pointed out by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University. The jet stream is an air current that acts as a sort of conveyor belt.  […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jet-stream-climate-change/feed/ 2 53817 Good News: Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dropped by 1.1 Percent in 2009 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop-20100609/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop-20100609/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:08:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7930 Among the dozen of bad news that keep filling our mailboxes daily, we once in a while read something worth smiling at: the global greenhouse emissions generated by energy use dropped for the first time since 1998, by 1.1 percent. Through this, the economic crisis has its good actions, because it reduced the industrial production and fossil fuel consumption worldwide.

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