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Coming Soon: A Respiration Tax!?(under a proposed law, you breath, you pay)(Brief Article)
"Take a deep breath; hold it," writes Terence Corcoran in the August 4th issue of Canada's National Post. "Now let's see: You hit 4.5 on Environment Canada's new Individual Carbon Polluter Exhaler, just a little above average. That means your Personal Carbon Pollution Tax for the year 2006 is $155.70. Your two children don't contribute much yet, but under the federal government's innovative Reverse Child Carbon Tax Credit, designed to capture the future carbon burden their breathing will impose on the atmosphere and the health of the planet, there's a flat $50 tax for each child."
Although we haven't seen the imposition of such measures, continues Corcoran, "we might some day. One scientist estimated human respiration probably contributes as much as deforestation to the annual load of man-made carbon in the atmosphere. Throw in animals, and the carbon count rises considerably. Carbon dioxide is as natural and wholesome a gas as you can find -- plants exist on it and humans exhale it. But throughout the world today carbon dioxide is an ...
- Carbon dioxide an often overlooked natural resource.(Energy & Utilities)
- Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal McNeill, George May 3, 2004 700+ words
...resource. "The state is blessed with carbon dioxide," according to Kerry Allen, Mississippi...producer and its only producer of carbon dioxide. In a process called "through the bit," carbon dioxide is used to enhance oil wells that...
- Carbon dioxide marches to an uneven beat. (climatic changes moderate...
- Magazine article from: Science News Monastersky, Richard June 24, 1995 700+ words
...climbs ever higher, so do emissions of carbon dioxide, the notorious greenhouse gas. Since...started monitoring its concentration, carbon dioxide has accumulated in the atmosphere almost...fuels. But in the last 15 years, the carbon dioxide buildup has surged ahead of fossil...
- Carbon Dioxide Promises Green Alternative for Air Conditioners, Refrigerators.
- News wire article from: AScribe Science News Service March 10, 2006 700+ words
...technologies that use environmentally friendly carbon dioxide as a refrigerant instead of conventional...Talks also will cover the use of carbon dioxide to run "heat pumps," which operate...organizing the conference. Although carbon dioxide is a global-warming gas, conventional...
- Carbon dioxide may be tomorrow's refrigerant.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Barrett, Rick October 24, 2002 700+ words
...Manufacturing Co. are making progress with carbon dioxide in automotive and portable heating...water heaters and buildings. Although carbon dioxide is considered a global-warming gas...according to Modine researchers. Using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant would not contribute...
- Carbon dioxide may be tomorrow's refrigerant.
- News wire article from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 4, 2002 700+ words
...Manufacturing Co. are making progress with carbon dioxide in automotive and portable heating...water heaters and buildings. Although carbon dioxide is considered a global-warming gas...according to Modine researchers. Using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant would not contribute...
- Carbon dioxide: where does it all go?
- Magazine article from: Science News Monastersky, R. August 26, 1989 700+ words
Carbon Dioxide: Where Does It All Go? Scientists studying carbon dioxide have run into arithmetic problem. A research...say it points out an unnerving ignorance about carbon dioxide. "We've been overconfident for a long time...
- Carbon Dioxide May Be Tomorrow's Refrigerant.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 5, 2002 700+ words
...Manufacturing Co. are making progress with carbon dioxide in automotive and portable heating...water heaters and buildings. Although carbon dioxide is considered a global-warming gas...according to Modine researchers. Using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant would not contribute...
- Carbon Dioxide Technology Could Help Dairy Products Stay Fresh...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Barrett, Rick June 19, 1997 700+ words
...shelf life of dairy products. It's carbon dioxide, and when injected into foods such...the United States currently are using carbon dioxide in cottage cheese, extending the shelf...cheese, other dairy products with carbon dioxide should reach grocery stores in about...
- Decaffeinating with carbon dioxide (CO2).
- Magazine article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Sims, Marc September 1, 1990 700+ words
Decaffeinating with Carbon Dioxide C[O.sub.2] The most selective...components of natural effervescence--carbon dioxide and water. The process is described...methods used for specialty coffees. Carbon dioxide is usually not thought of as a...
- More Carbon Dioxide May Help Some Trees Weather Ice Storms.
- Magazine article from: Space Daily August 21, 2006 700+ words
...SPX) -- The increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere predicted for later...found that loblolly pines growing under carbon-dioxide levels mimicking those predicted for...damage under elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide," said Ram oren, an ecology professor...
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