Lab researchers are joining a multi-agency project to measure California’s summertime greenhouse gas emissions to determine the state’s relative contribution to the global total. Aircraft with atmospheric sampling devices will fly over the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley areas to quantify regional carbon exchange.

Contact: Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov

BERKELEY, CA — Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were important contributors to the research on global climate change that has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The 2007 Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and [...]

Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov

From the evidence of tree rings, the last 50 years were the warmest half-century in 1,300 years. Eleven of the past 12 years are the hottest on record since reliable record-keeping began in 1850; since 1870, sea level has risen some eight inches worldwide, and the rate is accelerating; since 1900, glaciers [...]

Contact: Allan Chen, a_chen@lbl.gov

To play its part in reducing the consequences of global warming, the state of California has embarked on a trailblazing effort to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Assembly Bill 32, recently passed by the California legislature and signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, requires the state to substantially reduce [...]