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because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.
«On global cooling,» he writes, «there was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific consensus that the world is growing warmer
because of the emission of greenhouse gases.»
Not exact matches
Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact
because it takes livestock — one
of the biggest contributors to
greenhouse gas emissions — out
of the equation.
Labor unions have pushed for approval
of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands
of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it
because it would increase
greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.
A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction
of the pipeline would not add to
greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless
of Keystone XL's fate.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the Keystone XL pipeline will significantly increase
greenhouse gas emissions because it will lead to the expansion
of Alberta's carbon intensive oilsands.
Fraley and Van Eenennaam said that genetically modified food has reduced the number
of chemicals being put into the soil as well as
greenhouse gas emissions because tilling the soil is no longer necessary.
Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons
of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members
of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.
Because methane
emissions from a cow's manure are typically lower than those released from its belching, future studies should look at the effect
of antibiotics on that source
of the
greenhouse gas, too, the researchers suggest.
Globally, about 32 million acres
of forest is destroyed each year, mostly in the tropics and,
because trees absorb carbon dioxide, deforestation is responsible for some 15 percent
of all
greenhouse gas emissions.
Infrastructure investments in new train tracks or fast - lane bicycle paths, for example, might not only reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases, but also decrease costs in other areas,
because less roads and parking lots have to be built.
When we mitigate
greenhouse -
gas emissions, we also create huge co-benefits in the nature
of energy security,
because if we continue to increase our consumption
of fossil fuels, we're really going to put pressure on limited resources
of these fossil fuels.
At the same time, though, he dealt a big blow to the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, calling it a «failure»
because it had done little on its own to curb
emissions of heat - trapping
gases.
These failings take a special toll on the challenges
of sustainable development
because there is no quick fix, for example, for the challenge
of large - scale reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions.
Even die - hard Alaskan antienvironmentalists have begun to warm up to the idea
of imposing limits on
greenhouse -
gas emissions, according to The Wall Street Journal,
because homes on the coast there are already beginning to slip into rising seas.
Holt said that climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute,
because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary
of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut
greenhouse gas emissions.
Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.
Then,
because the idea
of wasting money wasn't going to get his attention, I started to work out the
greenhouse -
gas emissions.
Canada is set to badly miss a 2020 target for cutting
emissions of greenhouse gases, in part
because of its failure to regulate the booming oil and
gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said
It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if
greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries
because of the warming that's already happened.
Conversely, Montreal was ruled out
because it already receives 99.7 percent
of its energy needs from hydroelectric and wind energy, meaning that the investment in geothermal heat pumps would bring little return on investment in both cost and reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions.
According now to two separate modeling analyses published in Science, this error would lead to the loss
of most
of the world's natural forest
because clearing those forests for bioenergy becomes one
of the cost - effective means
of complying with laws to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
The reason using existing cropland for biofuels tends not to show up as yielding large reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions is simply
because those croplands are already absorbing large quantities
of carbon.
These aquatic environments are relevant in the context
of climate change
because they are responsible for much
of global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Because most
of Singapore's petroleum products are not consumed domestically,
greenhouse gas emissions generated by the oil refining industry should not be simply counted as Singapore's responsibilities, said Edwin Khew, chairman
of the Sustainable Energy Association
of Singapore.
Rather,
greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals
because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use
of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.
«When it comes to life cycle
greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better
greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies,
because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport
of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.
The irony is that this electrical energy is already potentially available at the top
of the power station chimney,
because on release one «solution»
of greenhouse gas — in the stack's
emissions — mixes with a different - strength solution — in the ambient air — all the time.
«The Trump administration doesn't want this data
because it doesn't want to rein in oil companies» massive
emissions of this dangerous
greenhouse gas.»
That surge was fueled, in large part,
because of a growing economy, falling coal prices and a cold winter, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday in its annual
greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one
of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate
greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics
emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section
of the Clean Air Act.
Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States
because of high energy input, increased
greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.
Dr Degirmenci said the results
of the study were relevant to Australia
because the transport sector accounted for 16 per cent
of the country's
greenhouse gas emissions and 85 per cent
of these were generated by road transport.
Airplanes emit roughly 12 percent
of the man - made
greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, but they are among the fastest growing sources and, potentially, the most damaging
because of their release higher in the atmosphere.
That's
because more than half the world's population
of seven billion now live in cities and cities are responsible for 70 percent
of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
Professor Rob Lamb
of the JBA Trust and Lancaster University said: «Each
of these steps reflects different sources
of uncertainty, but we find overall that there is a substantial chance
of more properties having been placed at flood risk
because of past
greenhouse gas emissions, leading to potential damages that could be part
of the losses incurred in 2013/14.»
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of enactment
of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list
of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title
because the practices avoid or reduce
greenhouse gas emissions or sequester
greenhouse gases.
«Our work shows that almost 70 %
of king penguins - about 1.1 million breeding pairs - will have to relocate or disappear before the end
of the century
because of greenhouse gas emissions,» said Dr Céline Le Bohec from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University
of Strasbourg.
It will also be the warmest year on record, primarily
because of anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse gases, with CO2 being the main culprit,» Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University
of Reading, said in an email.
«We chose the iconic Great Barrier Reef
because water temperature varies by 8 - 9 degrees along its full length from summer to winter, and
because there are wide local variations in pH. In other words, its natural gradients encompass the sorts
of conditions that will apply several decades from now under business - as - usual
greenhouse gas emissions.»
In California, where lawmakers passed an ambitious law aimed at cutting
greenhouse gas emissions in 2006, regulators have had the authority to require dairies to cut methane, but have not followed through
because of opposition from the industry.
Public lands are considered one
of America's best defenses against rising
greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities
of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.
Because of the these attributes, this seemingly modest, very local activity support national goals to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, improve health through prevention, and increase access to opportunity.
In that case we had better get on with doing the job the hard,
greenhouse gas emissions reducing way now
because the longer we put it off, the harder it will be; and the higher the risk
of disasterous positive feedbacks setting in.
California should be able to make the decision to limit
emissions,
because high levels
of emissions, contributing to the already high levels
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, have the potential to negatively affect California in the near future.
And I framed this blog around the broader issue
of how we navigate the next two generations with the fewest long - term regrets
because I personally see
greenhouse gas emissions as PART
of the great challenge facing a fast - growing species with a faster - growing footprint.
«A rapid cutback in
greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming...
because current global warming is offset by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC
of cooling cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»
The general direction is up, we know why (primarily anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions), but still some people will deny all
of that, just
because they don't like policy recommendations that politicians propose to curbe those
emissions.
As the linked article said why America is 39th, it is
because the
greenhouse gas emission of America is top
of the world.
Because that's about how much time we have to stop the increase in
greenhouse gas emissions and begin steep reductions that will bring
emissions to near zero within another ten years at most, if we are to have any hope
of avoiding the most catastrophic consequences
of global warming.