Category Archives: Carbon

Greetings from COP-15

by Dr. Donna Charlevoix, GPO Climate Research Campaign Coordinator Greetings from Denmark! I am here in Copenhagen for the Conference of Parties-15, more commonly known as COP-15. We wrote about this conference in an earlier blog. The two-week conference starts … Continue reading

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More Misconceptions about Climate Change, Part 2

Misconception: The carbon dioxide record at Mauna Loa is not reliable because Mauna Loa is a volcano. It is true that volcanoes give off carbon dioxide. In fact, paleoclimatologists talk about “greenhouse worlds” with more carbon dioxide, much of which … Continue reading

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Changes in carbon dioxide in the air

I’m going to write a little bit more about a “climate misconception” to follow up on the blog I did a few weeks ago. This relates to how our cutting back on carbon production affects the amount of carbon dioxide … Continue reading

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Climate-Change Misconceptions, Part II: Partial Misconceptions

Understanding something as complicated as climate change is really tough. So it’s easy to understand why people don’t always get things right. But it’s much easier to explain why the term “global warming” is misleading than it is to explain … Continue reading

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Carbon Dioxide, Part 3: A Global Look

The amount of CO2 given off by industry in a year Figure 1 is a diagram of the carbon cycle from the GLOBE Carbon Cycle Project, based at the University of New Hampshire. This diagram shows where the carbon is, … Continue reading

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