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Shaping The Future of Global Energy Policy

By Guest PostJune 7, 2011Environmentar5, bioenergy, catherine mitchell, climate, climate change, climate change and sustainable futures, cornwall, energy policy group, fifth assessment report, geothermal, global efforts, greener energy, greenhouse gas emissions, hydro, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, ocean, rajendra pachauri, renewable energy, scientific evidence on climate change, solar, special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation, srren, university of east anglia, university of exeter, wind energy

A leading academic at the University of Exeter has played a central role in compiling a report which could be vital for global efforts to tackle climate change.

Professor Catherine Mitchell, part of the University’s Energy Policy Group based in Cornwall, was one of only two experts from the UK to contribute to the ‘Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation’ (SRREN). (more…)

Global Rivers Emit Three Times IPCC Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide

By Guest PostDecember 21, 20103 commentsEnvironmentagriculture, atmosphere, atmospheric ozone layer, chelsea crenshaw, denitrification, dinitrogen, global, greenhouse gas, henry gholz, human activities, inert gas, ipcc, jake beaulieu, microbes, microbial process, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, oxide emissions, ozone, river networks, stratospheric, waterways

*Waterways receiving nitrogen from human activities are significant source*

What goes in must come out, a truism that now may be applied to global river networks.

Human-caused nitrogen loading to river networks is a potentially important source of nitrous oxide emission to the atmosphere. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. (more…)