Sentences with phrase «most emissions of carbon dioxide»

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Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

ARI's most recent emissions analysis of the ECOMAX reports 700 pounds less of carbon dioxide emissions each month compared to the old truck.

In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced by a quarter, average speeds increase by 30 percent, and carbon dioxide emissions decrease by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC report.

The result will be power generation in a local area with growing power demands - enough power for over 150,000 homes - with a 90 per cent reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

In a 1968 report prepared for API in New York City, SRI scientists Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins acknowledged some uncertainty concerning the relation between carbon emissions and rising temperatures, yet said carbon dioxide was the most likely cause of the «greenhouse effect.»

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

Even under the most optimistic scenarios for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, the analysis by an international team shows that one - fifth of the globe's lizard populations, corresponding to 6 percent of all lizard species, may go extinct by 2050.

Most industrialised nations now seem likely to miss the target, agreed in Rio, of stabilising emissions of carbon dioxide at 1990 levels by 2000.

She found that the emissions of the newly connected, most in poor villages, amounted to just 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

They would also do something to help Australia meet its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, as most would have more impact than the small carbon tax which has been proposed.

More important, the plant could also capture nearly all of coal's most elusive and potentially disastrous emissions: carbon dioxide, the main gas that drives global warming.

Such a blend would offer significant environmental benefit — most notably reduced emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

Ocean acidification represents one of the most serious long - term threats to coral reef ecosystems and will continue through this century, irrespective of progress in reducing emissions due to the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

The global economy grew by a healthy 3.3 % while emissions of the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, didn't.

As a typical American, each year, you're responsible for approximately 20 tons of carbon dioxide emissions — otherwise known as your carbon footprint (and a mighty big one compared to those of the citizens of most other countries).

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Most of the discussions centered on devising strategies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases from automobiles, power plants, and the burning of tropical forests.

Updated, 11:28 a.m. With climate treaty negotiations expected to intensify next year, China is signaling that it may soon set the timetable for hitting an eventual peak in its emissions of carbon dioxide, the most important human - generated greenhouse gas.

Total anthropogenic emissions of one trillion tonnes of carbon (3.67 trillion tonnes of CO2), about half of which has already been emitted since industrialization began, results in a most likely peak carbon - dioxide induced warming of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, with a 5 — 95 % confidence interval of 1.3 — 3.9 degrees Celsius.

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

[UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Voices added below] Most concerns about growing emissions of carbon dioxide have focused on the gas's heat - trapping effect on climate.

In a collection of four strategy documents which together proclaim themselves «the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed country», the UK government plots out exactly how it plans to meet its legally binding targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

Ninety - eight of the nation's 100 most - polluting power plants in terms of total carbon dioxide emissions are coal plants, the study found.

In the agricultural sector, most of the approximately 5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions are from methane and nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide.

Hergoualc» h says most of the research in tropical peatlands has focused on monitoring soil emissions of carbon dioxide.

Since the design lifetime of most fossil fuel plants is of order 40 years, the world would be wise to opt for another generation of fossil fuels to continue the improvement of the lot of mankind, while making a more determined effort over a longer time to develop real workarounds to the currently perceived problem of carbon dioxide emissions.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

Most environmentalists and sympathetic politicians want you to believe that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a «dirty,» dangerous air pollutant and human emissions of it must be reduced by any means possible if the world is to survive.

Freshwater wetlands are among Earth's most productive ecosystems, and the restoration of these environments — especially in temperate and subtropical latitudes — has the potential to offset greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas directly produced by human activities.Present emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) account for about half the short - term climatic impact of man - made greenhouse gases (GHGs).

FAR revealed, for example, that on the most important indicator of uncertainty in climate science — the likely range of warming for a given increase in carbon dioxide emissions — progress was actually retrograde.

Most estimates of wind turbine life - cycle global warming emissions are between 0.02 and 0.04 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

Even in «low emission» climate scenarios (forecasts that are based on the assumption that future carbon dioxide emissions will increase relatively slowly), models predict precipitation may decline by 20 - 25 percent over most of California, southern Nevada, and Arizona by the end of this century.

They found that average temperatures had remained relatively stable for most of the past millennia, but had started to rise steeply around 1900, when the Industrial Revolution kicked into full gear in Europe and North America, with new factories and automobiles pumping new sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

In the fight against climate change, most experts focus on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide, but methane is actually the more potent greenhouse gas, even more effective at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

At our small - scale Inn Serendipity, created from a four - square farmhouse on five and half acres, our guests can relax, savor a local breakfast with most of the organic ingredients harvested from a hundred feet from our back door and drive away knowing that their carbon dioxide emissions were carbon off - set through our participation in the non-profit Trees for the Future Trees for Travel program.

The Obama administration rolled out a plan Monday to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions on global warming in U.S. history.

The youth, between 9 and 14 years old, had petitioned the State agency to create a rule mandating reductions of greenhouse gas emissions based on the most current climate science, which says that 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is the maximum level for a safe climate system.

The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation.

While the greenhouse effect is undeniably real, and while most scientists agree that there has been a rise in global temperatures caused in some part by human emissions of carbon dioxide, no one knows how much more warming will occur this century or whether it will be dangerous.

The only line on the page relating to Brulle's Conspiracy is the claim that «Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well - supported by scientific evidence.»

The Pennsylvania Democrat, who has been working on portions of the bill aimed at reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, also told reporters that for the first 10 years to 15 years of the program, most of industry's permits would be free.

If U.S. per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were equal to those of its most populous state, California, global CO2 emissions would fall by 8 percent.

«We estimate that black carbon, with a total climate forcing of +1.1 W m − 2, is the second most important human emission in terms of its climate forcing in the present - day atmosphere; only carbon dioxide is estimated to have a greater forcing.»

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

CCS, which includes technologies to strip carbon dioxide from the flue gases of power plants, would allow continued output by eliminating most carbon emissions.

While most scientists believe extreme weather events will be more frequent as heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions cause global temperatures to rise, Baddour said it was impossible to say with certainty what the second half of 2007 will bring.

The second energy challenge is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is mostly about carbon dioxide, most of which emanates from stationary sources (heat and power).

Fossil fuel emissions — especially carbon dioxide — are blamed by most scientists for increased concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.