This is because, when we
talk about carbon emission scenarios and climate sensitivity, we are ultimately talking about future risk management.
... I resent these continual suggestions that doing something
about carbon emissions implies some anti-third world agenda — it's low rhetoric of a most despicable kind.»
In other words, Germans actually are seriously
concerned about carbon emissions, and they are not going to celebrate some minor downturn in the smallest of the three main energy sectors (Germany consumes roughly a fifth of its energy as electricity, but 2/5 as motor fuel and 2/5 as heat).
He told me it was «addiction,» this idea that geoengineering could work so well that people would turn to it again and again without actually doing
anything about carbon emissions themselves.
You don't need to go into the
details about carbon emissions or chemical processes or quantities of global ice loss or sea level elevations or ocean acidification or the potential feedback loop of tundra methane releases, although there is plenty of available information on all of them.
Also, Virginia should have received more credit for lowering its carbon emissions by building nuclear plants back in the 1970s when no one was
thinking about carbon emissions.
IRA FLATOW: And in fact, I've seen some conservatives saying now that President Trump has said that he may be pulling out and does not believe in the Paris Accords, that China now is going to be seen as the biggest country in the world that is going to embrace doing
things about carbon emissions.
Available online in full, the premiere includes
stories about carbon emissions produced by deforestation, the heated debate in US culture and politics about the causes of and possible solutions to global warming and what Syria's civil war suggests about a scary future in an ever - drier Middle East.
If you thought that those pesky vuvuzela were the worst thing about the 2010 World Cup, wait until you
hear about the carbon emissions estimated to be released during the planet's biggest sporting event.
Jon Norman, president and COO of bulk energy storage firm Hydrostor, said technology change and the dropping costs of renewable power are crucial factors driving the global shift to non-emitting resources, in addition to
concerns about carbon emissions.
30 May, 2017 — A leading economist says the world should reject
lies about carbon emissions, pricing them to show the real cost of fossil fuel.
6 December, 2007 Dear Power Consumer: While we all want our governments to do something
about carbon emissions and planetary warming, many of us believe that it is important to consider the total impact of any project that claims to benefit our society.
«We're launching this definition at a time when we're on the cusp, I think, from not worrying
about carbon emissions to worrying like crazy about carbon emissions.