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NOAA, Boeing and Alaska Airlines are teaming up to learn how best to use aircraft for collecting greenhouse gas samples in an effort to better monitor climate change.

Boeing, Alaska Airlines, and the NOAA are working together to test climate tech that measures greenhouse gases on a commercial plane.

Boeing made this announcement: Boeing and Alaska Airlines announced today they are partnering on the latest Boeing ecoDemonstrator program and will flight test about 20 technologies on a new 737-9 to enhance the safety and sustainability of air travel. In flights beginning this summer, Boeing and Alaska will test a new halon-free fire-extinguishing agent that significantly reduces effects on the ozone layer, evaluate an engine nacelle designed to reduce noise and assess cabin sidewalls made f...

Despite pandemic shutdowns, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels surged last year, reports Climate and Capitalism.

The global surface average for carbon dioxide (CO2), calculated from measurements collected at NOAA’s remote sampling locations, was 412.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2020, rising by 2.6 ppm during the year. The global rate of rise was the fifth-highest in NOAA’s 63-year record, following 1987, 1998, 2015 and 2016. The annual mean at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii was 414.4 ppm during 2020. Economic slowdown prevented a record increase in CO2 The economic recession was estimated to...

In late March, New Mexico’s largest newspaper ran a story about how 2020 set records for oil and gas production in the state: More fossil fuels were pumped out of the ground last year than ever before. The Albuquerque Journal story, published in a weekly stand-alone business section, quoted a pair of company owners and an industry spokesperson. The original story was rewritten and repackaged by other outlets both in and outside of New Mexico.  Join our email list to get the stories that mai...

The transition to a global energy system that runs on renewable energy rather than finite and dirty coal, oil, and gas is arguably the number-one topic in the media, sometimes eclipsing even the pandemic. Yet, for all the enthusiastic talk, it seems that we are nowhere near accomplishing the transition—and it may already be too late to do anything about climate change anyway, according to some climate scientists. “Embedded power structures and support for a dying industry”: these are th...

Your Turn: Climate change is real but not new, writer says Kim Gau A headline in the St. Cloud Times from April 9, 2021, stated:  "CO2 levels highest in over 3M years."  In the same article a man — Colm Sweeney of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — also stated:  "Human activity is driving climate change."  Indeed, climate change is real.  Its been going on for millions of years. As far as it being caused by human activity, there are more than 31,000 scientists who ...

Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than at any time in past 3.6-million years

Policymakers are under intensifying pressure to deliver on promises made as part of the Paris Agreement ahead of this year's COP26.