‘LONDON, June 10 Reuters – China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency IEA said on Monday.’

via Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2012 | Reuters.

‘(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting climate change by cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the White House said a statement.’

via U.S., China agree to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons | Reuters.

‘OSLO, June 9 (Reuters) – Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led scientific study said on Sunday.’

via Ganges, Nile and Amazon seen suffering more floods from warming | Reuters.

‘The owners of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California, which has been shut since January 2012, said on Friday that they would close it permanently because of uncertainty over when it could be reopened.’

via San Onofre Nuclear Plant in California to Close – NYTimes.com.

‘Southern California Edison announced Friday it would shut down the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant.

The move comes 17 months after the San Onofre plant was closed because of problems in steam generator systems. The plant powered about 1.4 million households in Southern California before the outage.’

via Edison will shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant for good – latimes.com.

‘Slick towers in a tropical island cave provide a 100,000-year climate record rivaling Greenland’s pristine ice cores, scientists say.’

via Tropical Caves Fill Gap in Climate Record – Yahoo! News.

‘A leak led to an investigation and then a shutdown. Now, more than a year later, two reactors inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will be retired.’

via Socal Edison Retiring San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station | NBC 7 San Diego.

‘…500 gigatons is a lot, but we’re producing more than 30 gigatons a year as a planet, and that number has been growing about 3 percent a year. Which gives us, oh, about 15 years before we go soaring past the two-degree threshold. If we are to avoid doing that, computer modeling shows that the world’s carbon emissions have to peak in 2015 and then come hurtling down.’

via Global warming maths – we’re down to our last 500 gigatonnes : Renew Economy.

‘Nocera is looking for ways to drive down the costs make these devices more widely available. He recently replaced the platinum catalyst that produces hydrogen gas with a less-expensive nickel-molybdenum-zinc compound. He’s also looking for ways to reduce the amount of silicon needed.’

via Chemist Hopes ‘Artificial Leaf’ Can Power Civilization Using Photosynthesis – Yahoo! News.