The failure to
actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could spray water droplets in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere to do the same.
Not exact matches
Although APS plans to
reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will
actually increase its greenhouse gas
emissions in the near term, since the
global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.
«I know there are some out there, probably a couple hundred people, who
actually believe that the world is coming to an end and man - made
global warming is going to cause it, so I just want to give them the assurance that if they're right and we are wrong, [proposed climate policies are] not going to
reduce but it will increase CO2
emissions,» he said.
The Most Ineffective and Expensive Way to Address Potential
Global Warming The European Union's
Emissions Trading Scheme is proving horrendously expensive and unpopular, but is actually doing little to reduce greenhouse gas e
Emissions Trading Scheme is proving horrendously expensive and unpopular, but is
actually doing little to
reduce greenhouse gas
emissionsemissions.
If a nation emitting high levels of ghgs refuses to
reduce its
emissions to its fair share of safe
global emissions on the basis that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change
actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends for tens of millions of others, should that nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?
As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to
reduce their greenhouse gas
emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any
emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe
global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to
actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe
global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
since nobody
actually thinks Australia (or anybody else)
reducing co2 will
actually lower
global emission levels.....