Sentences with phrase «concerns about greenhouse gas»

With growing concerns about the greenhouse gas balance of many types of biomass and bioenergy — as well as effects on biodiversity, land use, and competition with food production — the EU needs to get policies right by capping the contribution of bioenergy to renewables targets at sustainable levels, and promoting only bioenergy that is both sustainable and delivers real carbon benefits.

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Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and climate change took a back seat.

The department said it wanted to ensure its concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are adequately addressed.

Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions simply do not have a high priority now in developing nations.

The rising cost of gas coupled with rising concern about greenhouse gas emissions weigh heavily on all fleet operations.

If all of these people are so concerned about greenhouse gases then why not stop the emissions related to their long CO2 generating journey.

«If people are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, biomass makes a lot of sense,» Patton - Mallory said.

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On the other hand, voters concerned about climate change remain concerned about reliance on natural gas because natural gas (methane) is itself a potent greenhouse gas.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

Since 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing has occurred due to advances in batteries and energy management, concerns about increasing oil prices, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Hanna said he has «significant concerns» about how the EPA expanded its authority with the rule, but he believed the GOP bill would have gone too far to prevent future rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

In general, the results support concerns about permafrost carbon becoming available to decomposition and greenhouse gas emission.

Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere.

Registration fees for plug - in vehicles also fly in the face of policies intended to promote their use due to concerns about energy independence, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions, Dumortier said.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

Pruitt said he was concerned about methane as a greenhouse gas, but not «deeply concerned.»

While rising carbon dioxide emissions are a primary concern of those worried about climate change, emissions of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, have also risen in recent years.

Man - made climate change has been a global concern for several years, but as industrial emissions of some greenhouse and ozone - depleting gases drop, scientists are finding new sources to worry about.

But natural gas consists predominately of methane, so even small leaks from natural gas wells can create large climate concerns because methane is a potent greenhouse gas — it's about 30 times more effective at trapping solar heat than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period.

Many climate scientists, policy experts and environmentalists are concerned about the potential for the incoming administration to limit funding for climate science and roll back both national and international progress toward limiting the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

The second concern is about even more greenhouse gases flowing out of the permafrost.

Also pack up all your cares and woes if you're concerned about the future of renewables, especially solar power, the same section contains an article in which Dr. Ray Kurzweil says in part:» Worried about greenhouse gas emissions?

My interst in doing this has been to 1) first of all, to investigate if any fears whatsoever are remotely justified for «greenhouse gas» composition changes in the atmosphere 2) to examine how a theory was developed that indicated cause for concern and 3) communicate what I know that can not possibly be true, within the realm of phyical law about claims made in regard to any possible danger associated with greenhouse gases.

Despite the report's added emphasis on a list of «reasons for concern» about the continuing growth of long - lived emissions that trap heat, senior White House officials said Friday and Saturday that it remained impossible to define a «dangerous» threshold in the concentration of greenhouse gases or resulting warming.

There's more than enough research, including work in the peer - reviewed literature, to provide «Republic science and Democratic science» even as the case for concern about building greenhouse gases remains robust.

While, in theory, human activities have the potential to result in net cooling, a concern about 25 years ago, the current balance between greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions of particulates and particulate - formers is such that essentially all of today's concern is about net warming.

It would be hard to find someone more concerned about human - driven climate change and more involved in pursuing and assessing ways to get traction on curbing greenhouse gas emissions than Marshall.

Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

It includes a remarkably trenchant, readable explanation from Santer of why such fights — not just the physical kind — have little to do with the scientific basis for concern about the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

It's worth spending some more time on the National Academy of Sciences reports on geoengineering prospects and concerns — the concerns mainly being about adding sun - blocking particles to the atmosphere to counteract global warming driven by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

Another reality is that while worries about climate - related instability are rising, near - term concerns about energy insecurity are already a top - tier issue both here and in China, the two dominant contributors to the planet's greenhouse - gas blanket.

Sept. 30, 10:04 a.m. Updated There's been a steady stream of distracting commentary here and elsewhere positing that carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas at the heart of concerns about a growing and hard - to - reverse human influence on climate, is far more ephemeral than climate scientists assert.

«Alec is very concerned about the potential economic impact of greenhouse gas regulation on electricity prices and the harm EPA regulations may have on the economic recovery,» the resolution reads.

Can Obama assuage those concerned about oil sands» large greenhouse - gas emissions, while maintaining true to his commitment to an «all - of - the - above» energy policy?

The nation is once again assessing how best to stimulate the deployment of advanced energy technologies in response to recent high energy prices — caused by the growing world demand for energy, wars in the Middle East, and last year's hurricanes — and concerns about the adverse environmental effects, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, of using conventional fossil energy.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

Russian scientists say that today's alarmism over greenhouse gases is as baseless as concerns about man - raised dust were 30 years ago.

Nuclear powered reactors are capable of producing vast amounts of electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions, which is clearly a great benefit given current concerns about climate change.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

Concerned about the dangers of climate change and the violation of fundamental rights held by citizens, courts are requiring governments to take adequate actions to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The latest was on April 12th with ``... significant advances have been made since the protocol was created, many of which are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases.

Electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide increases from 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2010 to 5.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2040, as concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) was formed on May 6, 1997, under the direction of the National Consumer Coalition — a project of the now - defunct Consumer Alert — «out of concern that the American people were not being informed about the economic impact of proposals to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»

There are also growing concerns about trends for some other greenhouse gases — in particular, the second most - important man - made planet warmer, methane, the main constituent of natural gas.

And I think that Mike, if in fact he were truly concerned about climate change and truly familiar with California, would recognize that 50 % of our greenhouse gas emissions in California are attributable to the development in refining and use of petroleum, and focus attention there.

The US apparent unwillingness to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions beyond what it is already on track to achieve is of considerable controversy in the Qatar negotiations this week because of the growing scientific concern about the potential inevitability of catastrophic warming caused by human activities.

In addition, environmental concerns about manure runoff, greenhouse gas emissions, odor, and pathogens are putting pressure on farmers to change their practices.

Even if the earth's temperature had stayed the same or even decreased slighty over this time, ask yourself this: given what we know about the greenhouse effect and the levels of CO2 gases the world is creating, would you not be concerned that if we continue at the current rate, things are gonna get a hotter, eventually?