How are we doing with CO2 emissions? It's an important question, increasingly posed to a mixed bag of CO2 contributors who may or may not provide accurate reportage. Liu et al present a new, additional means of measurement based on satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide co-emitted from coal-fired power plants, in A methodology to constrain carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants using satellite observations of co-emitted nitrogen dioxide (open access). From the abstract:
The broader implication of our methodology is that it has the potential to provide an additional constraint on CO2 emissions from power plants in regions of the world without reliable emissions accounting. We explore the feasibility by comparing the derived NOx?CO2 emission ratios for the US with those from a bottom-up emission inventory for other countries and applying our methodology to a power plant in South Africa, where the satellite-based emission estimates show reasonable consistency with other independent estimates. Though our analysis is limited to a few power plants, we expect to be able to apply our method to more US (and world) power plants when multi-year data records become available from new OMI-like sensors with improved capabilities, such as the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), and upcoming geostationary satellites, such as the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) instrument.
Observations & observational methods of global warming & effects
Human fingerprint in global weather
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
Processes driving global interior ocean pH distribution
Signature of Ocean Warming at the Mixed Layer Base
Modeling, simulation and assessment of global warming & global warming impacts
Robust increases in extreme Pacific North American events under greenhouse warming
Climate model advancement
Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models
Revisiting the impact of sea salt on climate sensitivity
Sensitivity of future climate change and uncertainty over India to performance-based model weighting
Biology & global warming
Light alters the responses of two marine diatoms to increased warming
GHG sources & sinks, flux
Enhanced carbon uptake and reduced methane emissions in a newly restored wetland
Observing and Simulating Spatial Variations of Forest Carbon Stocks in Complex Terrain
The capacity of northern peatlands for long-term carbon sequestration (open access)
Drivers of change in China’s energy-related CO2 emissions (open access)
China's aircraft-related CO2 emissions: Decomposition analysis, decoupling status, and future trends
Climate change communications & cognition
Scientists’ incentives and attitudes toward public communication (open access)
Humans dealing with our global warming
Climate change adaptation strategies of small-scale farmers in Ngamiland East, Botswana
Does renewable energy efficiently spur economic growth? Evidence from Pakistan
Impact of climate change on vulnerability of freshwater resources: a case study of Mauritius
The potential role of renewable electricity generation in Taiwan
Evaluation of cooperative mitigation: captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery
Market-induced carbon leakage in China’s certified emission reduction projects
Other
Maximum Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet recession in the early Holocene
Evolution of the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Regulation on Earth
Informed opinion & nudges
Firing up ambition (open access)
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