Sentences with phrase «add a cost to greenhouse»

First, Nisbet has taken a helpful initial, if imperfect, cut at stripping away some of the mythology surrounding efforts to add a cost to greenhouse gases as the means to limit climate risk.

What benefits of renewables are not addressed by adding a cost to greenhouse gases, and so justify subsidies to renewables?

Not exact matches

If global corporations are allowed to turn our state into a sacrifice zone, reap massive short - term profits, and significantly add to greenhouse gas emissions, the true costs of drilling in terms of environmental impacts, quality of life, and long - term cleanup costs would be passed on to state residents.

Adds Thomas: «It seems to me highly unlikely that [investing in nuclear power] is the most cost - effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

Or we can take effective steps to more rapidly reduce both our fossil fuel use and our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time adding new green jobs and reducing driving costs.

«We need to estimate how much it will cost if we do nothing how it will cost if we do something and how much we need to spend to cut back greenhouse gases,» added Hope, who worked with the University of Colorado's Kevin Schaefer on the assessment.

In the past, the drop in hydropower has been largely made up by burning more natural gas, costing Californians billions of dollars in added energy costs and generating more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

«We can not ask the poorest and most vulnerable to bear the costs,» he said, adding that greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were the highest in mankind's history.