Sentences with phrase «concentrations at a safe level»

If the overall cap for any year is set below the level of emissions last year, on a downward trajectory compatible with stabilizing concentrations at a safe level, reserving some credits for new entrants would force other firms to bid for fewer permits, raising prices and increasing the number of mitigation activities that are worth undertaking.

and, (d) Whether those causing climate change have obligations to act now because if the world waits to act until all uncertainties are resolved it will likely be too late to prevent catastrophic impacts to others and to stabilize greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations at safe levels?

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Even with the use of over the counter medications, which are relatively safe, may at some concentration level pose danger to the breastfed child.

In type 1 diabetes, beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin — the hormone that keeps our blood glucose levels at a safe concentration — are destroyed by the immune system.

The atrazine apparently created hermaphrodites at a concentration one - thirtieth the safe level set by the Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.

These pet products can expose adults and children to toxic pesticides at concentrations that exceed by 500 times — 50,000 percent — the safe levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency.

This is true because most mainstream scientists have concluded that the world must reduce total global emissions by at the very least 60 to 80 percent below existing levels to stabilize GHG atmospheric concentrations at minimally safe atmospheric GHG concentrations and the United States is a huge emitter both in historical terms and in comparison to current emissions levels of other high emitting nations.

Given the growing urgency of the need to rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and the hard - to - imagine magnitude of global emissions reductions needed to stabilize atmospheric concentrations at reasonably safe levels, the failure of many engaged in climate change controversies to see the practical significance of understanding climate change as an ethical problem must be seen as a huge human tragedy.

In testing, the researchers detected tiny concentrations of cadmium at quantities far below accepted safe levels.