Ken Green, Senior Director of the Centre for Natural Resources at the Fraser Institute, joins BNN to outline why he thinks a carbon tax is a “very bad idea.” This video appeared on the BNNBloomberg Canada website at https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada/video/carbon-tax-a-very-bad-idea-fraser-institute~954578
By Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. The COVID-19 disease spread is causing a worldwide shutdown in economic activity as business close, airlines cancel flights, and people shelter in their homes. For example, there was a 28% decline in global commercial air traffic in March 2020 compared to March of last year. Last month I described a
By Thomas C. Parker et al. Abstract In arctic ecosystems, climate change has increased plant productivity. As arctic carbon (C) stocks are predominantly located below ground, the effects of greater plant productivity on soil C storage will significantly determine the net sink/source potential of these ecosystems, but vegetation controls on soil CO2 efflux remain poorly
By Sara Rigby Without the ocean’s ‘biological carbon pump’, atmospheric carbon levels would be much higher. The oceans’ ‘biological pump’ is capturing even more carbon dioxide than previously thought, a study finds. Phytoplankton on the surface of the ocean absorb carbon dioxide, and are eaten by zooplankton, carrying the CO2 deeper into the ocean. The levels
[The Chronicle of Philanthropy has published an an exchange on climate science and energy economics between the heads of the William and Flora Hewlett and the William E. Simon Foundations. In the January 2020 issue Hewlett Foundation president Larry Kramer had called on other foundations to join his in focusing their funding on ending CO2
By Heather Hager et al. Abstract Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration increases the performance of invasive plants relative to natives when grown in monoculture, but it is unclear how that will affect the relative competitive abilities per se of invasive and native grasses grown together. We tested competitive outcomes for four native and four invasive perennial
Paper Reviewed Zou, Z., Liu, F., Chen, C. and Fernando, W.G.D. 2019. Effect of elevated CO2 concentration on the disease severity of compatible and incompatible interactions of Brassica napus-Leptosphaeria maculans pathosystem. Plants 8: 484, doi:10.3390/plants8110484. Writing as background for their study, Zoe et al. (2019) note that “plant disease symptoms in pathosystems are influenced by,
By Alan Beard As an international banker who finances highly structured multimillion loans in emerging markets for power projects, railroads, toll roads, port expansions, etc., we use sophisticated financial models to predict outcomes and determine areas of potential weakness (stress testing) in order to appropriately underwrite transactions to protect lenders and investors. Often hundreds of
Paper Reviewed Ravi, V., Pushpaleela, A., Raju, S., Gangadharan, B. and More, S.J. 2019. Evaluation of photosynthetic efficiency of yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus L.) at saturating photon flux density under elevated carbon dioxide. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 26: 189-194. The Mexican yam bean, or jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), is an important edible legume that
By Fernando E. Vega et al. Abstract While [CO2] effects on growth and secondary chemistry are well characterized for annual plant species, little is known about perennials. Among perennials, production of Coffea arabica and C. canephora (robusta) have enormous economic importance worldwide. Three Arabica cultivars (Bourbon, Catimor, Typica) and robusta coffee were grown from germination
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James Piereson, President of the William E. Simon Fnd, picks apart the "climate crisis" narrative in philanthropy,… https://t.co/8esOoFmtti
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RT @JunkScience: "Only one other winter has failed to drop below 22 degrees by this point — The winter of 1931-1932.” The winter of 1931-3…
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