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Tag Archives: climate crisis
Climate The Overriding Issue
From the headline on msn.com Thursday: 2021 saw record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels and ocean heat, new report shows When you turn on the news today, after you get by the stories of our former treasonous president, there are the … Continue reading
Climate Predictions Turn Into Reality
Wildfires across Europe including Britain as the continent faces the hottest temperatures ever recorded. Record temperatures in China and India. Wildfires across North America in the face of the record temperatures. We were warned – over and over and over. … Continue reading
Environmental Round Up – It’s Getting Hotter
I’ve written about the environment on Blog for Iowa since my first post on Feb. 25, 2009. Never in the time since then has there been more happening regarding degradation of our environment. As Scott Duncan’s graphic above indicates, it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, environment, global warming
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Crops in Northwest Iowa Suffer Due to Drought
Photo credit: Josie Taylor | July 6, 2022. This is the second in our July series called Feature Friday. Iowa Environmental Focus, a product of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) at the University of Iowa, is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change
Tagged #ActOnClimate, climate change, climate crisis, Iowa agriculture, The Climate Reality Project
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Swallowing The CCS Proposition
Two corporations plan to install Carbon Capture and Sequestration technology to collect CO2 emissions at about 40 ethanol and fertilizer plants spread across Iowa. Next, they plan to permanently bury the resulting liquefied CO2 in deep rock formations in North … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged ActOnClimate, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, environment, greenhouse gas emissions, Iowa agribusiness
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Shine More Light On CCS
The more sunshine that falls on Carbon Capture and Sequestration plans of Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures the better. On Sunday, Erin Jordan of the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported something surprising: “Scientists with the Iowa Geological Survey say … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, environment, ethanol
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Climate Change Is Missing In CCS Debate
The language used by supporters of carbon capture and sequestration in Iowa is very specific. Not only doesn’t it include the words “climate change,” it specifically avoids mentioning it. This is a long-standing practice among major agricultural groups. As mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, ethanol, Navigator, Summit
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Here Comes Carbon Capture Technology
Let’s be clear about Carbon Capture and Sequestration: it is an unproven technology to enable fossil fuel use when society should be turning away and leaving fossil fuels in the ground. Among the problems with the technology is our government … Continue reading
Carbon Capture and Sequestration References
Like it or not, Iowa Republicans have hoodwinked us into a carbon capture and sequestration method of addressing the climate crisis. It is common sense that hooking a polluting ethanol plant, coal-fired electricity generating station, or a propane grain drying … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, environment, ethanol
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Innovations In The Climate Crisis – CCS
I viewed the S&P Global Market Intelligence discussion between reporter Taylor Kuykendall and Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Nov. 8. The thirty minute video is worth viewing to hear Moniz on major technologies and technological developments that will … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged ActOnClimate, Bold Iowa, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, Ed Fallon, environment, Ernest Moniz, Navigator CO2 Ventures, net zero, Summit Carbon Solutions
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