Sentences with phrase «actually peak its emissions»

«Many experts are still confident that China will actually peak its emissions before [its] own target of 2030,» he says.

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Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

Okay, one little nit - picky issue with Q2 is that O2 and N2 actually DO absorb infrared radiation, just at shorter wavelengths than matter for the Earth's infrared emission spectrum (3 - 27 microns, with a peak around 9 microns or so).

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

Has anyone actually done any «real» laboratory experiments with CO2 mixtures, using a real 288 Kelvin thermal radiation source that is putting out a 10.1 micron peak wavelength emission spectrum at about 390 W / m ^ 2.

In «high income regions» (OECD90, REF) sulfur emissions have already passed their peaks and are actually declining at present.

First of all, we'd need to see emissions going down... Then after that, we'd need several years, maybe even a decade, to be confident that it was actually a peak.»