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2014 Ford Fiesta with Super-Efficient 1.0-Liter 3-Cylinder EcoBoost Engine Coming to U.S.

2014 Ford Fiesta with Super-Efficient 1.0-Liter 3-Cylinder EcoBoost Engine Coming to U.S. | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Historically, North-Americans didn't have access to the most fuel-efficient small engines that were the bread & butter of European and Asian models. But all that has slowly been changing in the past few years...
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Has the Time Come to Try Geoengineering? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Has the Time Come to Try Geoengineering? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

Earth’s average temperature has warmed by 0.8 degree

Celsiusover the last 100 years or so. The reason is increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere.

 

The concentration of CO2 has now reached 394 parts-per-million in the air we breathe—and would be even higher, roughly 450 ppm, if the oceans weren’t absorbing a good deal of the CO2 we create by burning fossil fuels, clearing forests and the like.


Via Athena Drakou
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