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Quoted: ブリヂストンの「emeters（イーメーターズ）」は毎日の走行距離や時間、走行スピード、消費カロリーを計測・保存できるサイクルメーター。まずはこのemetersを自転車に装着して、街をサイクリングしてみましょう。走行距離や...<続きを読む>

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Nice visualizer tool

Read this if you want to get an idea for the type of measures that are needed to keep CO2 levels from growing beyond 500ppm. The authors identify 15 "wedges" - or projects that can reduce 1 Giga-ton/year of carbon.

They claim with need to "pick 7" of these - and it will get result in a net reduction of 175 Giga-tons (50 years * 7 / 2 - assuming these measures are phased in on a linear basis).

Quoted: A wedge is fifty years of mitigation activity which grows linearly from zero today to 1 GtC/y in 2054, avoiding 25 GtC of emissions. We recommend the “wedge” as a useful unit of activity for visualizing carbon management. Many carbon mitigation strategies cannot plausibly grow large enough to provide a whole wedge. However, a full wedge or more is available for several mitigation strategies.

Great opinion piece about the over-hyped threat of Global Warming. Lindzen argues the cure is worse than the disease and that everybody should "calm down".

Quoted: Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has always been funded exclusively by the U.S. government. He receives no funding from any energy companies.

Thomas Friedman's article on the Green movement and it's geo-political context (from the Sunday NYT). He argues that high oil prices, encourage authoritarian states (Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, ...).

Quoted: The dirty little secret is that we’re fooling ourselves. We in America talk like we’re already “the greenest generation,” as the business writer Dan Pink once called it. But here’s the really inconvenient truth: We have not even begun to be serious about the costs, the effort and the scale of change that will be required to shift our country, and eventually the world, to a largely emissions-free energy infrastructure over the next 50 years.
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Most people have no clue — no clue — how huge an industrial project is required to blunt climate change.
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If we basically do nothing, and global CO2 emissions continue to grow at the pace of the last 30 years for the next 50 years, we will pass the doubling level — an atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide of 560 parts per million — around midcentury.
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[we need] a total of 175 billion tons of carbon avoided between now and 2056.
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China — is constructing the equivalent of two 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants every week.
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The only way to stimulate the scale of sustained investment in research and development of non-CO2 emitting power at is if the developed countries, who can afford to do so, force their people to pay the full climate, economic and geopolitical costs of using gasoline and dirty coal. Those countries that have signed the Kyoto Protocol are starting to do that. But America is not.

Feeling guilty about contributing to Global Warming?
Here's something you can do about it to balance out your car's carbon emissions.