Sentences with phrase «additional greenhouse gas emissions»

We can reduce our environmental impact since food waste puts unnecessary pressure on land and natural resources and results in additional greenhouse gas emissions.

That extra driving could require enough extra fuel and generate enough additional greenhouse gas emissions to offset the respective savings provided by the hybrid vehicle in the first place.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Keystone XL tar sands oil would result in additional greenhouse gas emissions of 27 million metric tons annually compared with conventional oil.

In fact, in its own legal brief, Ecology was transparent about its authority to do more if it wanted: «Ecology does not argue that it lacks the authority to adopt additional greenhouse gas emission standard [s] if it chooses to do so.

Even so, other experts say a full life - cycle assessment would be required to ensure that solving the plastic problem in this way wouldn't lead to other problems, like additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Partly that reflects the fact that costs begin rapidly to escalate beyond that amount of warming; partly it reflects the possibility (discussed in considerable detail by Mr. Lynas) that that may be enough warming to trigger climate feedbacks that would make yet more warming inevitable even without additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Everyone benefits: GM maximizes the value of that leftover material; Blue Star Steel saves money buying scrap steel, and the environment is spared additional greenhouse gas emissions from a foundry.

This misalignment creates cost inefficiencies and additional greenhouse gas emissions.

However, as co-advisor Mark Fulton says, «KXL will improve revenues in the short - term which means that it will help catalyse new investment, more oil - sands production and additional greenhouse gas emissions».

BH: Some of them are talking about climate sensitivity at 1.2 C, at 1.5 C. I think this is completely implausible because the basic energetics of the climate system responding to the additional greenhouse gas emissions almost from simple physics, has to be at least 1.2 C and possibly more before you begin to take into account any of the feedbacks in the system from water vapour in clouds and so on.

In terms of additional greenhouse gas emissions, producing fuel from oil shale produces eight times the emissions of making fuel from conventional sources of petroleum.

«KXL will improve returns in the short - term, which means that it will help catalyze new investment, more oil - sands production, and additional greenhouse gas emissions,» adds co-advisor Mark Fulton.

The recent wave of news and magazine articles about scientists struggling to explain the warming slowdown could prolong or deepen the public's skepticism.But the «consensus» never extended to the intricacies of the climate system, just the core belief that additional greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet.