Sentences with phrase «us emissions numbers»

Both the EDGAR and the EPA methane emissions numbers come from what are called bottom - up estimates and are calculated very differently from Miller's study.

Emissions numbers conflict depending on whom you ask.

«The scary 20 - year GWP weighted emissions numbers translate into very inconsequential additional warming, which goes away quickly after there is an ultimate transition to renewables,» Pierrehumbert said.

Many manufacturers have been busted for fudging (lying) about mileage numbers and they get away with just refunding customers a few bucks when actually if you think about it if you overstate your mileage numbers than at the same time you have understated your emission numbers, where's Congress and the EPA now?

Under «performance», amid all the fuel consumption and emission numbers, the space where an official 0 - 100 figure should be sits like a black hole swallowing the elephant in the middle of the living room.

The emission numbers stand at 181g / km for the manual and 164g / km for the automatic.While it promises to be fun to drive, the 86 is not a straight - line weapon, with a 0 - 100 km / h time of 7.6 seconds for the manual.

Fyi, our CO2 emissions number for logging is about 447 million tons of CO2 annually.

It's a start, but we should be observing a global response that would really crash the emission numbers instead of possibly reducing the rate of increase or producing several years of flat emission numbers.

but nothing since, do you have, or can you point me to, the global CO2 emissions numbers for more recent years?

Re 80 (and further on) Chip I have seen the global emission numbers from Mike Raupach (CSIRO and chair of global carbon projekt).

(We use 2012 figures because that is the starting point for what we actually need to accomplish; all emissions numbers are from EPA's 2014 Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 — 2012, which is the most recent official U.S. report to the Paris process.)

In fact, why can't you go one step further and forget about even trying to decide which of the scenarios presented were the most realistic and just dig up the model, plug in the emissions numbers, volcanic eruptions, etc. from the last couple decades and see how well the model holds up.

Once companies have working models, they can input more detailed company - specific data into them to fine - tune actual emissions numbers.

Also, when you compare the mathematical growth curves for atmospheric CO2 and human emissions the numbers for the RE simply do not add up.

Zhang Zhanping, deputy head of the capital's monitoring team, said that the agency will also enhance supervision to reduce cases of enterprises failing to report accurate emission numbers or refusing to pay emission fees.

Chris You know that «emissions numbers» or estimates are of such a low accuracy as to be meaningless.

The fossil fuels emissions numbers are about 100 times bigger than even the maximum estimated volcanic CO2 fluxes.

This tool matches a ZIP code with an electric grid region, which in turn is matched with an average emissions number (expressed as CO2e).

Just measure emissions rigorously, with a device mounted on the back end of every power plant, and then make sure emissions numbers match up with allowances at the end of the year.

Under the Swedish scenario the emissions numbers were lower all around: For 30 minutes of reading, printed newspaper was the worst at 19 kg CO2 / yr; reading online was 16 kg CO2 / yr.

Not exact matches

In the 13 years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

The numbers omitted a few important details: she said, for example, that the oilsands account for only 7 % of Canada's emissions, but did not mention what that percentage would be in 10 years.

This would begin in 2020 with certain vehicle types, such as non-zero emission taxis, being banned from a «small number of streets.»

Another of today's provincial best practices is Quebec's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, which requires a growing number of vehicles sold in the province to be emissions - free.

At the same time, a number of Republican - controlled states throughout the United States have significantly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions due to the transition away from dirtier fossil fuels to wind, solar, and gas.

Battery prices are falling fast, more and more models are available, and countries like China are buying record numbers of zero - emission cars.

The solution proposed introduces a theoretical upper bound on the maximum absolute number of ETC and introduces a method of degraded emission over time.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Adding refining emissions to that number would get you closer to 65 million tonnes, but you're still not at 88Mt.

Again, you could choose to give Young the benefit of the doubt that he was only talking about cars, not trucks, and then you are likely pretty close to the right number for oil sands emissions.

To achieve economic growth, diversification and reduction of GHG emissions in the province required action in a number of key areas, including the following:

Considering this, coupled with my observation that the number of personal cars has significantly increased since my last visit to Beijing in 2007, I am wary of the efficacy of emission control at the consumer level.

The Chinese, brilliantly cynical, and joined by India and a number of African states, have hit upon a perfect non-starter: The climate problem was created by the West, the industrialized nations, so they should fix it, cutting their emissions to forty percent below 1990 levels, until the developing nations have had a chance to catch up.

New figures from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center have found that carbon emissions likely hit their highest levels ever in 2010 (the numbers are partially preliminary estimates).

Ablution was also required in a number of life situations, e.g. after the consumption of ritually unclean food, after emission of semen, after sexual intercourse, and after contact with ritually unclean persons or things.

There is probably no practical way to achieve the necessary reduction in greenhouse emissions (chiefly carbon dioxide and methane) without controlling the numbers of people in the world (Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990).

This is potentially so disastrous that a number of nations have agreed to drastically cut their emission of carbon dioxide.

Fraley and Van Eenennaam said that genetically modified food has reduced the number of chemicals being put into the soil as well as greenhouse gas emissions because tilling the soil is no longer necessary.

The chain with 40,000 locations around the world says it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at both restaurants and its offices by 2030 by nearly 40 percent from 2015 numbers.

BG EAT will host the Buffalo Grove Green Fair on June 30 and feature 20 exhibitors at Mike Rylko Community Park, 951 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove, and a number of activities to teach visitors about water conservation, reducing greenhouse emissions and recycling along with a recycle collection of small electronics, eyeglasses, hearing aids, keys, gently used books, household batteries and light bulbs, said Debi Moritz, also a member of the BG EAT.

State government agencies have provided baseline numbers for 1990 emission levels and expected 2020 levels based on current trends.

So billions of pounds are to be spent increasing emissions and increasing the number of people suffering from noise pollution, only for a few hundred million to be spent making that situation slightly less worse than it might otherwise have been.

Amid the plans for 84 new road schemes are plans to spend # 300 million on an «environmental fund to mitigate carbon emission (sic) and reduce the number of people affected by serious noise.»

But to their credit, the Conservatives came up with a particularly zany way of banning these gatherings, which was to outlaw «sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats» played above a certain volume to a certain number of people.

To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

We need a serious and big picture statement from Greg Clark or even David Cameron himself on how they plan to reconcile their extraordinarily ambitious targets to cut the UK's carbon emissions with the number one priority of the British voter; a return to job - creating, income - enhancing economic growth.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has rolled back a number of Obama - era initiatives, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.