The missing greenhouse gas

sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

Growth of the electronics industry will boost emissions of a "hidden"—but extremely potent—greenhouse gas. Nitrogen trifluoride is used in the production of semiconductors, but it's not mentioned anywhere on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Bacteria Release Serious Greenhouse Gas

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 6 days (www.redorbit.com)

Unlike carbon dioxide and methane, laughing gas (nitrous oxide) has been largely ignored by world leaders as a worrying greenhouse gas.

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Trash-Based Biofuels: From Landfill to Full Tank of Gas

sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.sciam.com)

The remains of plants processed for human purposes molder in landfills across the world. Whether waste paper or raked leaves, the plant remnants still contain cellulose, a sugar in greenery that bonds with the chemical compound lignin to furnish a plant's structure. Microbes living in the landfills break down this cellulose into methane, which slowly seeps to the surface and into the atmosphere, where it is a potent greenhouse gas. BlueFire Ethanol, Inc., in Irvine, Calif., would rather harvest that energy for use as cellulosic ethanol fuel.

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Reining in climate change may not cripple economies

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.nature.com)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that 1) We really need to halt global warming at no more than two degrees C over current average temperatures and 2) This might not actually be so very expensive, claiming that it could cost as little as 0.12% per year of the global gross productivity (3% total until 2030).

I was a bit optimistic when I started reading this, but it doesn't actually propose any methods for reining in greenhouse gasses. Thoughts?

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