Sentences with phrase «by carbon emissions»

But we may also be on the verge of a new regime by carbon emissions.

Because changes in the market away from fossil fuels will inevitably make those energy sources less expensive, carbon taxes keep their prices high, reflecting the costs imposed on society by carbon emissions.

What makes the reports findings all the more astounding is that it does not cover climate change impacts caused by carbon emissions from China's coal sector.

Climate change, brought about by carbon emissions from factories, power plants and cars, has had a variable impact on the Antarctic.

«By combining geochemical measurements and a global climate model that my group has been developing for over a decade, we have shown that this event was caused almost entirely by carbon emissions from the Earth's interior.»

This would be better than pouring more subsidies into coal, whose use will be limited by the carbon emissions, and which creates environmental problems in the mining process (e.g., «mountaintop removal).

The Nov. 2 - 4 Vatican workshop titled «Health of People, Health of Planet and our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health» will attempt to link up the health risks posed by air pollution with anthropogenic climate change driven by carbon emissions.

The Obama administration recently raised its estimate of the economic damage caused by carbon emissions by two - thirds, reflecting an improved understanding among independent experts of the impact of rising sea levels and other developments relating to climate change.

But while some people are motivated by carbon emissions and virtue, for Bourdain it is all about flavor, and some level of safety:

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

, the federal government has known that climate change, caused by our carbon emissions, would endanger generations of Americans.

«In his Dec. 10, 2007 «Earth has a Fever» speech, Gore referred to a prediction by US climate scientist Wieslaw Maslowski that the ArcticÂ's summer ice could «completely disappear» by 2013 due to global warming caused by carbon emissions.»

For my whole life, the federal government has known that climate change, caused by our carbon emissions, would endanger generations of Americans.

«With rising global temperatures caused by carbon emissions, El Niño helped to turn Indonesia into a tinder box,» said Professor Richard Betts, head of climate impact research at Exeter University.

As the new study notes, changes in the oceans, caused by carbon emissions, are perhaps «the most significant to the earth system,» particularly because they will further accelerate climate change.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

«Those opposed to [the Zero Emission Credit] do not offer a method of setting ZEC prices by alternatively valuing the damage caused by carbon emissions,» regulators wrote.