The emission of carbon dioxide from the production of cement current accounts for about 5% of the total annual industrial emissions of CO2.
Category: climate
The Climate Underground
We can’t count on better management of soils to solve the climate crisis
Negative Emissions by Forests
Trees remove a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Woody Biomass Fuels
Trees are the most efficient net-negative emissions technology that we know of.
The Forests are Burning
The incidence of forest fire is likely to increase in a warmer, drier world.
Reconciling the current rise in sea level
Loss of the ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica was associated with a dramatic rise in sea level during past glacial cycles
Trees and the Public Good
Without carbon dioxide uptake by trees, its concentration in the atmosphere would be rising nearly twice as fast as we observe today.
Carbonyl Sulfide
If [carbonyl sulfide shows that] photosynthesis has increased, that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, potentially mitigating climate change.
Pig Poop
Currently there are about 75,000,000 pigs in the United States. They generate a lot of poop, for which disposal is an ongoing problem in need of good solutions. North Carolina is home to about 12%Continue reading
Silent but Deadly
All children are fascinated by farts. So are atmospheric chemists. Farts are produced by anaerobic (without oxygen) digestion in the intestine. About 1% of flatulence is composed of malodorous, volatile sulfur gases, derived from theContinue reading