Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature

J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate
data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple …

Seismic lines in the boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America: environmental impacts, challenges, and opportunities

A Dabros, M Pyper, G Castilla - Environmental Reviews, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
The oil and gas industry has grown significantly throughout the boreal and arctic ecosystems
of North America. A major feature of the ecological footprint of oil and gas exploration is …

Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of shale gas, natural gas, coal, and petroleum

A Burnham, J Han, CE Clark, M Wang… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
The technologies and practices that have enabled the recent boom in shale gas production
have also brought attention to the environmental impacts of its use. It has been debated …

[图书][B] Power density: a key to understanding energy sources and uses

V Smil - 2015 - books.google.com
The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of
power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy …

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and energy footprints of utility-scale solar energy systems

TH Mehedi, E Gemechu, A Kumar - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Grid-connected utility-scale solar PV has emerged as a potential pathway to ensure deep
decarbonization of electricity in regions with fossil fuel-dominated energy mixes. Research …

Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland

MR Turetsky, WF Donahue, BW Benscoter - Nature communications, 2011 - nature.com
For millennia, peatlands have served as an important sink for atmospheric CO2 and today
represent a large soil carbon reservoir. While recent land use and wildfires have reduced …

Renewable energy in the context of sustainable development

J Sathaye, O Lucon, A Rahman… - IPCC special report on …, 2011 - orbit.dtu.dk
Historically, economic development has been strongly correlated with increasing energy use
and growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Renewable energy (RE) can help …

Emissions from oil sands tailings ponds: Review of tailings pond parameters and emission estimates

CC Small, S Cho, Z Hashisho, AC Ulrich - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The storage of large volumes of tailings has become an issue for Canada׳ s oil sands
industry. The use of diluent, along with incomplete bitumen and solvent recovery from the …

Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the recovery and extraction of crude bitumen from Canada's oil sands

B Nimana, C Canter, A Kumar - Applied energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract A model–FUNNEL-GHG-OS (FUNdamental ENgineering PrinciplEs-based ModeL
for Estimation of GreenHouse Gases in the Oil Sands) was developed to estimate project …

Land and water impacts of oil sands production in Alberta

SM Jordaan - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Expansion of oil sands development results not only in the release of greenhouse gas
emissions, but also impacts land and water resources. Though less discussed …