Sentences with phrase «about emissions»

-- as one commenter to my post pointed out, some studies have raised significant concerns about the emissions from high speed trains.

They have the right to power without worrying about emissions.

And that means it's possible to do something about these emissions relatively quickly.

Case 4: Global warming is NOT due to increased CO2 emissions, and we do nothing about our emissions.

But it's not because they care about emissions or the environment.

Information about the emissions from fuel cell electric vehicles can be found here.

Lots of black body curves but not used to thinking about emission spectrum for a gas.

However, relatively little is known about emissions from one of its largest man - made sources, the oil and gas industry.

But the public policy discussion is all about emissions (and not about concentration).

There are many questions about emission - amounts unresolved along with issues surrounding the batteries used to power the vehicles.

Most of us we are powerless to do much about emissions at a global scale.

The climate doesn't care so much about the emissions rate as it does the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

But what about the emissions that are not as easily linked to a company's activities?

But scientists have been expressing concern for years about the emissions produced by burning biomass.

Data back to 1990 is also revised if new information about emission factors, activity data or calculation methodology is available.

In addition to measuring the amount of methane emitted from the area, we are trying to find out whether there is anything specific about those emissions that could distinguish them from other sources.

Many recent studies about the emissions impact of natural gas focus on methane leakage during production.

To add a kind of surreal twist to all this, the industry talks constantly about the emission «reductions» it plans.

I've got to wonder about emissions here, also: couldn't drugs give off some particularly nasty ones?

On the other hand, if the skeptics are right about low sensitivity, it is not too late to do enough about emissions to prevent this 1 C scenario from happening.

And it's not only about emissions; it's about adapting to the negative impacts of climate change that will continue to happen no matter how fast we reduce emissions.

You might even need to be made aware of laws about emissions and inspections or the amount of tint allowed to your vehicle's windows.

Plenty of leaders in the developing world are concerned about emissions, and are well aware of global warming's relationship to CO2.

If you want to worry about emissions, add another term (emission per unit energy) which is where clean energy comes in.

If the country is serious about its emission reduction targets, it should speed up the auctioning scheme.

First, with respect to Round 5 (mitigation actions), there has certainly been a lot of negotiation going on about the emissions targets of both China and developing countries, although this issue didn't turn out to be as central at Copenhagen as we might have expected.

Consistent with previous theorising and empirical research highlighting that foregone - gains are preferred over losses [10], [19]--[23], people supported higher levels of emission cuts when the costs were framed as a foregone - gain than when they were framed as a loss (the one exception to this pattern was in Study 2, where the framing effect was eliminated when combined with a normative message about the emission policy preferences of others).

Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.

Differences in future atmospheric burdens and radiative forcing for aerosols are dominated by divergent assumptions about emissions from South and East Asia.

VW's Diess testified about emissions in U.S., report says; Software tuning to blame for Uber crash?

The news broke that VW lied about emissions on their 4 cylinder TDI cars across the world.

Denis Hayes (archival): They are talking about emissions control on automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles.

This would act as a disincentive for firms to lie about their emissions, and would offer them certainty about future carbon dioxide prices.

If the car was not manufactured for the country it is being inspected for, it would likely fail a mechanical inspection as each country has it's own little quirks about emission equipment (such as catalytic converters and EGR systems), and some even restrict which engine you can have to those that had been previously certified for that country.

@tlhlngan «each country has it's own little quirks about emission equipment (such as catalytic converters and EGR systems)» - Can you please elaborate this statement, I didn't quite get that

Even if you ignore Gavin's comments about emission scenarios and set a specific target which is independent of human decisions (such as a doubling of carbon dioxide) will you be able to determine the statistics of weather events, or the weather events themselves, etc?

Worldwide shipping should get a closer look especially when Long Beach's port has to complain about emissions from junk ships fouling the air to the point of considering banning them from the harbor.

However, it's very clear that The Economist does * not * «equate» uncertainty about climate sensitivity with uncertainty about emission levels.

«I'm not going to comment about the resource super profits tax but I will talk about the emissions trading scheme.

Study 2 incorporated the same framing manipulation as Study 1 in conjunction with a normative message about the emission policy preferences of participants from the first study.

Less important structurally, but most important environmentally, an analysis by the World Resources Institute (which I have not validated) indicates that the caps — as currently set — would not bring about emissions reductions by 2020 that would even come close to the President's announced goal of 17 % reductions (equivalent to the Waxman - Markey targets), as submitted by the United States under the Copenhagen Accord.