Sentences with phrase «actual emissions decline»

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The result is an overall emissions decline with the lowest overall economic impact, at least in theory, though some economists and other experts argue that such trade in greenhouse gases amounts to «voodoo economics» — the benefits of the trading never trickle down to the actual pollution control.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

As climate alarmists rend their garments over fossil fuel emissions, a group of scientists has discovered that the world's plants have somehow increased their capacity to assimilate carbon, resulting in an actual decline in the percentage of human - produced CO2 remaining in the atmosphere.

That, it says, means productivity must be increased by reversing declines in yield growth and closing the gap between actual and attainable yields in the developing world, while also reducing agriculture's environmental impact, including the depletion of fresh water and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.