Economics of Decarbonizing the Power Sector

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The power sector carries a considerably great burden of the CO2 emission reductions required to address climate change, a feature common to many scenarios of emissions abatement. These reductions will only be possible if existing plants are replaced with more efficient, and less-emitting [...]

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Study on potential impacts of melting of methane hydrates

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns

One of the abiding, but extremely potentially foreboding, uncertainties in climate science is possible positive feedback mechanisms associated with climate change. A recent study analyzes one of these mechanisms, potential melting of ocean methane hydrates, David Archer, et al., Ocean Methane Hydrates as a Slow Tipping Point in the Global Carbon Cycle, 106 Proceedings of [...]

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