Big Fossil: Links for July 2019

Emissions: Past, present and no future

ABC [Australia] Bitcoin's annual carbon footprint equal to Las Vegas, researchers say

Axios The climate stakes of speedy delivery

BG Towards Net Zero: A year of extremes

C&EN Industrial ammonia production emits more CO2 than any other chemical-making reaction. Chemists want to change that

CBC How some doctors want to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the operating room

Global Change Biology Fixing a snag in carbon emissions estimates from wildfires

Guardian Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year

Mongabay Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Vox More natural gas isn’t a “middle ground” — it’s a climate disaster

Wiley/AGU100/Global Biogeochemical Cycles Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Between 1991 and 2017

Transportation emissions

Guardian Climate crisis: aviation industry hears clamour for electric planes

Independent CLIMATE CHANGE: WE CAN RECLAIM CITIES FROM THE CAR WITHOUT INCONVENIENCING PEOPLE

Natural History Museum Leading scientists set out resource challenge of meeting net zero emissions in the UK by 2050

Politico EU takes aim at global airline emissions pact

Reuters Electric vehicle push in Norway could add $1.3 billion to power bills by 2040: study

Treehugger Why electric cars won't save us: There are not enough resources to build them

Yale It's getting easier to road-trip in an electric vehicle

Cleaner tech: How much can it help?

BBC Hydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future?

Business Green Carbon capture and feedstock: Drax unveils project to turn CO2 into animal feed

Business Green Plans confirmed for UK industrial CCU plant: Has carbon capture's time finally come?

Business Green US renewables capacity overtakes coal for the first time

Climate Home News Europe’s largest solar plant unveiled amid Spanish renewable rebirth

CNN Robert Downey Jr. wants to combat climate change with robots

Forbes Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

Inside Climate News As Trump Touts Ethanol, Scientists Question the Fuel's Climate Claims

Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation The 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change

Mongabay No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Reuters China could build 30 'Belt and Road' nuclear reactors by 2030: official

Reuters France to double pace of offshore wind projects as costs fall: PM

Time 'We're in a Race Against Time.' Michael Bloomberg Plunges $500 Million Into Clean Energy

Wired WHAT TO DO ABOUT CO2? TRY STUFFING IT INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO

Wired WHY ELECTRIC BUSES HAVEN'T TAKEN OVER THE WORLD—YET

WRI Besides Buying Renewables, How Can Companies and Cities Create a Greener Grid?

Coal:

The dumbest fuel

BBC Adani mine: Australia approves controversial coal project

CNBC ANALYSIS-South Korea fires up on renewables, to close more coal plants

Eco-Business China can’t wean itself off overseas coal

Quartz The world is spending more propping up coal—not less

RollingStone The World’s Most Insane Energy Project Moves Ahead

Sydney Morning Herald Al Gore slams Adani, tells Queensland 'good luck' in selling coal to India

Gas:

Not so innocent

Elementa Estimation of methane emissions from the U.S. ammonia fertilizer industry using a mobile sensing approach

New Atlas Startling study finds US fertilizer industry emits 100 times more methane than estimated

PhysOrg Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, researchers say

Photo Attributions

Cleaner technologies: Photo by: Marufish

Emissions: Photo by: Michael Elleray

Coal: Photo by: USDA NRCS Montana / Flickr

Oil: Photo by: liquidcrash

Gas: Photo by: Lars Plougmann

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