How some U.S. businesses are helping reduce greenhouse gasses | Climate Watch: Protecting the Planet

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Published 2024-06-22
In this episode of "Climate Watch: Protecting the Planet," CBS News senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy explores the cutting-edge technology some businesses are using to lessen carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

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All Comments (21)
  • @lisalim453
    Hallelujah. We need more drastic action to deter climate change!!!
  • Best options to capture carbon is everyone plant trees and hemp, stop oil/plastic and regrow rain forsts. Go solar.
  • @apotatoninja
    If only we put all the money we pour into fossil fuel development into fusion power development instead.
  • In the Middle East, more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims have reportedly died amid scorching heat in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Sky News reported. Agence France-Presse said that temperatures reached 51.8C in Mecca as around 1.8 million people took part in the “days-long, mostly outdoor” pilgrimage. It added that the death toll is expected to rise further as many continue to search for family members. Extended and severe heatwaves that continue to grip 50% of northwest India have claimed at least 110 lives and caused 40,000 to suffer from suspected heatstroke, the Hindustan Times reported. Delhi recorded its highest ever minimum temperature in a 55- year record this week, when night-time temperatures did not drop below 35.2C, the Hindu reported. Reuters reported that a senior government official said “Indian cities have become heat traps” due to unbalanced urban growth reducing water availability. Tens of millions of people in the US were under dangerous heat warnings this week as some cities faced record-breaking temperatures, the Associated Press reported. The Guardian reported that about 80% of the country’s population are experiencing “a kind of heatwave not seen in decades”, which brought prolonged periods of temperatures above 32.2C, “under a weather phenomenon known as a heat dome”.
  • Love that video - next video plz about the bunch of industries doing exactly the opposite at the same time. Too much *sugar* is bad for your health.....
  • Sea level rise is 12-20 meters by 2300 @2C warming. (State of Cryosphere). And even that could be too slow response, because what recent findings say. (Tidal salt water gets under ice sheets and melts them below, Eric Rignot et al...) This may mean 1-3 meters (3 feet to 10 feet) sea level rise by 2100.
  • @jeffcohen9246
    Maybe a start would be to cap the wells leaking from abandoned wells drilled in hundreds of wells in Texas
  • It sucks that the US Department of Forestry doesn't prioritize the health of the forest, it prioritizes lumber production.. typical right?
  • @rameshg2717
    Why can't someone put the carbon filter at the source?? Unless u can do it, all this is just name sake..
  • @MM-sf3rl
    The oil junkies need to pay. They’re the problem; they should pay for the methane controls.
  • 20:00 thanks for getting to the point, and she gives an honest answer: the problem is capitalism.
  • @lokesh303101
    Hydrogen Energy Transition. Carbon Emissions Capture for Ethanol. Gasification Plants for Syn-Gas Production. Biofertilizers. Greencover.
  • @sheilawade433
    Rotting food in land fills is something everyone can prevent.
  • @jefftiz1
    "CLIMATE CHANGE" PLEASE GET JOHN KERRY ON THE PHONE NOW!!
  • @Bitdog4U
    USA should build small Pelton wheel generators using a direct drive washing machine motor that could be plugged into a 2 inch polypropylene pipe going up the creek to a home made dam with a floating inlet pipe, 231 feet higher gets 100 psi = 300 - 500 WATT output, = FREE+CLEAN+CHEAP+RELIABLE Hydro electric power. Which can run LED lighting system, charge batteries, play a car stereo with house speakers, radio, 2 way radio, TV, etc. All for very little money. A 300 foot 3/4 inch ID black poly pipe on the roof gets free hot water forever during the sunny day time. With coils separated so the shadow of one pipe doesn't shade the others on south face of roof. Stainless steal bailing wire holds it in place. With coils on a black flat surface, a HOT water tank above works. Clear visqueen wind break makes steam. We should build nuclear after that. It is a "Common Sense First" approach that we can do NOW. Should do NOW, Need to do NOW, & sell to the world NOW. Rewire 3 phase coils to 3 ac circuits. LED lights run best on AC current, no rectifier control is required. Add lights to suit voltage output. Battery charging needs 4 diodes to DC & a resistor to limit electric breaking. This sets the out put voltage to that of the battery bank. Keep It Simple Stupid = KISS method.
  • @kevinJmadsen
    Carbon Capture HAS to be done in addition to cutting fossil fuel use. We can not capture enough to offset continued buring, that would be 3 times the volume of gasoline in CO2, requiring 3 times the infrastructure of the largest and most extensive infrastructure ever built by man, that of fossil fuel. That will never happen.