Virgin Atlantic Looks to Biofuels to Halve Carbon Emissions on Some Flights - IEEE Spectrum

Richard Branson's airline announced a partnership with LanzaTech, a company based in New Zealand that takes waste gases from various industrial facilities and converts them into usable fuels. The end result, theoretically, is a jet fuel that Virgin Atlantic will use on routes between London and Delhi, Shanghai, and elsewhere, with half the carbon footprint they have now.

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"We don't want to be a carbon loner" Greg Barker MP, Minister for Climate Change on #newsnight
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Greg Barker MP, Climate Change Minister, warns that acting alone on carbon emissions risks a "haemorrhaging of jobs and industry" #newsnight

NASA Climate Scientist: Skeptics are "Winning the Argument" : TreeHugger

...there's no comparable force bent on accurately communicating the latest findings of the climate science community. There are few on the pro-science side with that kind of capital, and there's no comparably powerful industry with a vested interest in seeing less carbon emissions.

So it comes down to a relatively mundane problem of cash flow. The fossil fuel industry -- and the skeptics they employ or encourage -- has the benefit of capital. Scientists researching at universities don't. Climate scientists don't have the power, connections, or resources to bombard the media with talking points about their latest research, but fossil fuel-funded think tanks and front groups can disseminate their skeptical misinformation on outlets like Fox News with ease. Skeptic-backers can organize front groups and get their talking points into Tea Party meetings, even though the information isn't factual.

Coming winter among coldest in 20 years, say forecasts | Home | Calgary Sun

Meteorologists for a U.S.-based weather service say we can expect one of the coldest winters in the past two decades with average temperatures up to 5C cooler than the norm.