Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Past research suggests that growing international demand for cooling has the potential to drive one of the most substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published on 19 October in Nature Sustainability , sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling.

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Energy Central

JUNE 19, 2023

The Healthy Planet Action Coalition’s Case for Urgent Direct Climate Cooling The Healthy Planet Action Coalition is an international organization that advocates for an urgent and more ambitious global response to climate change. It’s objective is a climate restoration plan that will limit global warming to below 1° C.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. “And that absolutely doesn’t need to be true.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The majority of fish populations in the sea are responding to global warming by relocating to wards colder waters nearer the north and south poles , according to the latest research on the impact of climate change on our oceans.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2019

The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99 percent, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The global demand for cooling energy has seen a surge in the 21st century. Exploring eco-friendly and sustainable cooling technologies holds promising prospects for combating global warming and curbing energy usage.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Instead of using refrigerant gases with high global warming potential (GWP), Barocal’s technology uses new solid-state, temperature-changing materials. “Heating and cooling accounts for 38% of the UK’s CO? emissions in the global cement industry and other energy-intensive sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. However, its 20-year global warming potential is over 80 times that of carbon dioxide, which means that it is far more destructive. “So The climate does not make compromises.”

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Energy Central

JUNE 26, 2023

A target of zero degrees of warming from the preindustrial level is neither ambition nor unachievable with an ocean heat focused climate policy. To fail to immediately address the total Earth System Sensitivity is the ultimate in procrastination, false economy and supreme disservice to future generations.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

According to new research published in the Journal of Applied Ecology , global warming may cause a decline in cod populations. Cod thrive in cool water, and global warming pushes the species to the brink of extinction. See original here: Cod are disappearing due to global warming.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

and other parts of the world because of global warming. Regions that were traditionally colder are warming up, and those that are warm are getting hotter. The data tracks down air conditioning usage via a measure known as cooling-degree days (CDD). Related: Global warming expected to exceed 1.5

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Eco-Business

JULY 19, 2020

Amid rising temperatures, cooling technologies will be needed to protect people from heatwaves and keep vaccines and food fresh. Climate-friendly cooling could help humanity avoid 0.4°C C of global warming by 2100.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

For a long time, farmers relied on the cool air in Michigan to keep their potatoes fresh all the way until late spring. “Our good, fresh, cool air is getting less all the time, it seems like,” Sackett said. Global warming is making crop storage costly for farmers. Via AP News Image via René Schaubhut.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A new study led by the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA) indicates that using seawater air conditioning is a greener alternative to conventional AC and could reduce cooling costs significantly. See more here: Researchers test seawater air conditioning as a renewable cooling alternative.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

As global temperatures rise and demand for air conditioning and refrigeration soars, all countries must adopt common-sense initiatives to make cooling more efficient, less emissions-intensive, and more affordable for consumers.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s an island no one in their right mind wants to be on, but sadly many of us increasingly find ourselves due to global warming. Heat islands” are a concept British climatologist Gordon Manley came up with way back in.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

And it also released a cloud of sulfur dioxide, a chemical that, in large enough quantities, reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet. They called for an “international non-use agreement” on so-called solar geoengineering technologies, which would cool the planet by releasing sun-reflecting chemicals into the atmosphere.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

You should also look at improving your insulation, this will reduce the amount of energy you need to use to heat or cool your home. As the side effects from burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, reducing the amount burned is going to help the planet. How To Save Energy.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 17, 2021

The post Cool New Eco-Friendly Cars That Aren’t Teslas appeared first on Green Living Guy. The latter were more efficient and practical in the early days when batteries were too large and inefficient for electric cars to be a viable mode of transportation. Fortunately, persistent and tireless innovation has improved electrical.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Dairy cattle are increasingly suffering from debilitating heat stress due to global warming. This is a genetic variant for a sleek, short coat which cools down cows in subtropical heat. See the original post here: Will gene editing and cloning create super cows that resist global warming?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

The dotted line shows that if only carbon dioxide is accounted for, average global temperatures flatline and don’t begin to drop until after 2100. Until emissions stop, particulate pollution masks some of the warming that Earth is already committed to by past emissions. Different emissions can either warm or cool the planet.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cleaning up pollution from homes, buildings, and transportation will require electrifying everything from cars to heating and cooling systems. The IEA now expects electric heat pumps outselling fossil fuel boilers globally by the end of the decade. degrees of global warming this century.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Government, business and consumers must work together to slash the emissions of air conditioners and fridges as temperatures rise around the globe and demand for 'cooling systems' snowballs, argues Arçelik CEO Hakan Bulgurlu. Some thousands of years ago, people of the Persian Empire built strange towers with one goal in mind: to cool down.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by an interagency working group, the “Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative” will direct billions of dollars under the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act toward five initial priorities: Efficient Building Heating and Cooling , including refrigerants with low global warming potential; Net-Zero Aviation (..)

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Eco-Business

JULY 19, 2020

Amid rising temperatures, cooling technologies will be needed to protect people from heatwaves and keep vaccines and food fresh. Climate-friendly cooling could help humanity avoid 0.4°C C of global warming by 2100.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. Even so, the past eight years were the hottest in recorded history , the result of the warming effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The global launch rate has already more than doubled over the past decade, with plans to dispatch a further 2,000 satellites globally by 2030. Although other particulate matter such as alumina is thought to cool the atmosphere, research into rocket launch emissions is inconclusive.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Key Focus: Agricultural methane Methane is a major source of global warming, with over 80 times the potency of carbon dioxide over 20 years. According to the IPCC, human-related methane emissions have caused one-third of the observed global warming to date.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 30, 2022

Insulate Your Home Adequate insulation is an essential part of the heating and cooling your home efficiently. Conserving energy at home can help out your household’s monthly budget considerably. Here are some of the most effective ways that you can use less energy at home.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

White goods brand promises to replace all 'high-impact greenhouse gases' from its cooling products within three years. Jonas Samuelson, Electrolux CEO, called for other companies across the cooling products industry to now step up their own HFC phase out efforts.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They have also partnered with Cool Effect, a carbon offsetting non-profit, to support environmental efforts that help underserved communities around the world. Their latest album, Obviously , includes the song “ Making Do ” about the effects of global warming on the lives of young people.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. The former civil servant and vocal Brexit supporter was a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation from 2019-21.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

How often do you take shelter in the cool confines of a space with air conditioning to beat the summer heat? Probably, very often. But, you might be surprised to know that air-conditioners don’t have a reputation of being environment friendly.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Liquid immersion cooling is an extremely promising technology for the thermal management of batteries. In liquid immersion cooling, the battery cells are completely immersed in a dielectric fluid, providing better thermal performance than the current thermal management solutions. Liquid Immersion Cooling Can Offer Design Flexibility.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. In Paris, streets and building walls are cooled down with water in the advent of heat waves and in Seoul, cooling shelters offer relief from sweltering weather for those who cannot afford air conditioning in their homes.

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