New, Highly Toxic Pesticide Is Greenhouse Gas 4,780 Times More Potent Than CO2 | ecoficial

Public health and environmental advocates Friday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request from Dow AgroSciences for a permit allowing it to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride onto farm fields in four states. The chemical is a toxic pesticide whose global warming effects are thousands of times stronger than carbon dioxide.

“The hazards of using sulfuryl fluoride in agriculture have not been evaluated. It is also 4,780 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide,” said Dr. Brian Hill, a staff scientist at the Pesticide Action Network. “Either one of those facts makes permitting these tests a major mistake.”

U.S. seeks emissions data from China

Victor says the White House is most likely using trade tariffs as a threat to get China to reduce its emissions. But he says the problem with threats is that sometimes you have to act on them. And if that happens, he says the result would be an all-out trade war.

Gates’ patent claims pre-empted by my 2005 “Hurricane Stopper” post [Reader Post]

Massive expansion of dirty northern coal-fired electrical generation will kill several birds with one stone: it will rejuvenate the world economy; it will decrease wintertime albedo cooling feedbacks, significantly mitigating global cooling; the release of CO2 from coal-burning will give some relief from cold-driven crop shrinkage; and it will contribute very slightly to the earth’s blanket of greenhouse gases, mitigating global cooling itself by a very slight amount.

So that’s my freebie. Dig here. Back to the future. Return to dirty coal. Hard to patent the past, but I predict that at least a few hefty diamonds will be pulled from this ash heap.

More Energy Efficient Lighting to Save Over 3,500 Metric Tons of CO2 Annually - Carbon Offsets Daily

With a switch to the energy-efficient, long-life GE Tetra® LED lighting system — a product of ecomagination(SM) from Lumination, GE Consumer & Industrial’s LED business (NYSE: GE) — AT&T is expected to save more than 5.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year and eliminate 3,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. It’s the equivalent of planting more than 950 acres of trees.

Why not just buy some bogus carbon offsets for about $10k annually?